Old Hildebrand

Old Hildebrand is a farce (ATU 1360C ). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second edition of 1819 in place 95 (KHM 95) on Austrian.

Content

The priest advises a peasant woman, so that they can couple to be alone, she should be ill. He holds Sundays before her husband a sermon that you can heal sick relatives by a pilgrimage to the Göckerliberg. The prank succeeds, but the farmer meets the road his godparents. The guesses what's going on, and carries him in his basket of eggs hidden to his wife back and asks for shelter. When the farmer's wife and the priest start singing in dialogue, sing back the other two, and the farmer is chasing the pastor of it.

Remark

The farcical story apparently in Austrian dialect is fabulously only in the one element the egg basket in which the sponsor can support the farmer, the farmer's wife does not suspect.

Origin and comparisons

Grimm's note cites the origin from the Austrian, where he is also called the old kiln firing. In a German Bohemian variant, the woman lets the man with the basket only one, as he says, " the reverend gentleman like inside put in a good word for me. " He lies down on the stove and turns sleeping. The woman brings a large beaker, until the priest sings to drink, she replies, then the person with the basket, last Hildebrand sings and chases them away:

In a story from Hesse 's wife sends her little black Hildebrand in the user country, the priest gives his horse, and a hundred dollars with. The Godfather brings it back in the basket and asks the woman for him, what woman, priest, godfather and Hildebrand sing in turn:

You name a song Hildebrand, a legend of the old Hildebrand and wife Ute, where it is sometimes true, sometimes untrue, as Ulysses in variants and KHM 38 The Wedding of Mrs. Fox. Comp. Munster. Tell p. 215; Meier No. 41; Pröhle Kinderm. No. 63

See also KHM 61 The peasant and KHM 61a of the hook, which was rich soon.