Hurleburlebutz

Hurleburlebutz is a fairy tale (ATU 425A). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, it was only 66 (KHM 66a) in the first edition of 1812.

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The king promises his youngest daughter to a white male, so that this wise the way out of the forest. After eight days, a fox comes into the castle, but they dress him a cowgirl's daughter, and the second time a goose-daughter's daughter. He wears her "Hurleburlebutz!" Into the forest, but remarks the deception of her speeches as he lets himself be lured. He threatens the king, gets the princess, and lives as a white male with her in his hut. Once he has to leave, to return as the middle three white pigeons, who cut off the princess at his request. There he is a redeemed young prince, and they inherit the kingdom. Edit SourceQuelltext

The magic or redemptive fairy is from Johanna Hassenpflug. It is only later in the note on the similar KHM 127 The Iron Oven. For the fox, KHM 57 The Golden Bird. Edit the reception code

This fairy tale, as well as other fairy tales, can be found in the appendix in some editions of children's and domestic fairy tales. See Bechsteins The White Wolf.

The fairy tale was distributed as a radio play (audio book) in an execution of the Detmolder Theater-Ensemble Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Wikisource: Hurleburlebutz - sources and full texts

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