Tailors and the animals

Schneider Hänschen and the knowing animals is a fairy tale (AaTh 613). It stands in Ludwig Bechsteins New German fairy tale book at place 4 and comes from Johann Wilhelm Wolfs German fairy tales and legends (No. 4: the betrayed secret).

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The cobbler persuades the naive tailor to hike with him that he will pay. But he lets him go hungry and eats himself. For the last two rolls he shares with him, he punches his two eyes, goes home, and marries the woman who both loved. The dying man overhears a bear, a wolf, and a fox, that the dew of this night heals the eyes, that the water under the market-place can save the city from thirst, and the diseased princess can be healed by falling into the sacrificial stock throws. Thus the tailor becomes a prince and the king's father-in-law. He meets the shoemaker, he does it immediately and is eaten by the animals. Edit SourceQuelltext

Bechstein calls the source with Johann Wilhelm Wolf and remarks the similarity to Grimms The two hikers and / or crows, but finds the present version better thought out and rounded off. The moral black and white painting is also typical of the fair. The tailor does not obey the shoemaker, but who, in his greed, takes the punishment himself. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Single-level Edit source text

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