Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie

The beautiful and Pif Paf Katrinelje Poltrie is a fairy tale (ATU 2019). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 131 (KHM 131). Up to the 3rd edition, the title Fair Katrinelje and Pif, Paf, Poltrie wrote.

Content

Pif Paf Poltrie interrogates father, mother, brother and sister of the beautiful Katrinelje if he can marry her. All answers, even if the other wanted (whose names rhyme on their chosen activity ). Then she praises her nonexistent dowry and he his Besenbinder profession.

Origin

The text is in Grimm's fairy tales from the second part of the 1st edition ( as No. 45) in place 131 The note quoted from the Paderborn 's (ie family of Haxthausen ) and describes yet Bremer variant with other poems.

The Children 's and Household Tales contain two rhyming stories around the married: 32 Clever Hans KHM and KHM 38 The Wedding of Mrs. Fox. To advertise the wealth cf. also KHM 84 Hans married.

The name probably comes from Poltrie English paltry, paltry ',' austere '. Joke dialogue of this nature are occupied in Lower Germany and the Netherlands, but also the German-speaking Switzerland and England. They might have been originally folk songs, children's songs or part of a parlor game.

Parody

Janosch makes new rhymes on mother Schluh, brother pants pride, sister Käseltraut and the lovely Kathrin ( ... eats aspirin), and Piff Paff of Polterie must ask for so long until the family died because they get married.