Dwarf hat
Dwarf hat is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 18 and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends from 1845 (No. 13: The Dwarf Mountain ).
content
The father only likes his daughter, not the three sons. The eldest knows about dwarves in the green mountains, they play and throw their hats, whoever catches one makes himself invisible and has power over them. He lies down there on the grass, the dwarfs come, a little cap falls next to him. He wants to take it, but the dwarves are faster and lock him up. It's the same with the second son. But the youngest waits until a little hat falls on his hand. The brothers are set free, treasures are given out, a drink for the father that warms his heart, and a dowry for the daughter.
Remarks
Bechstein names the source, Johann Wilhelm Wolf's German Fairy Tales and Legends , where the dwarfs kill two of the brothers. He expanded the fairy tale. It is now indicated how the father does not allow the daughter to marry on the pretext of poverty: "I cannot grind, you cannot marry, or we will hold a beggar's wedding". Bechstein puts more proverbs in the mouth of the miser: “The carpenter left a hole in my house. If the donkey is too comfortable, it goes on the ice, dances and breaks a leg. "
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 110-118, 290.