Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle

Spindle, the shuttle, and needle is a fairy tale (ATU 585 ). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 5th edition of 1843 instead 188 (KHM 188) and is based on Ludwig Aurbachers The Pathengeschenke in his booklet for the youth of 1834.

Content

An orphan girl is piously educated by a spinner. After her death, she lives alone and gives others what they has left. A free- forming prince to come to look at the richest and the poorest, because he will take no poor and no rich want. The realms he sees only briefly and rides on. The orphan girl when he looks in the window is red, but spins until he 's gone. Your hot. She spins on and sings " spindle, spindle, you go out, bring the suitor in my house. " Since the spindle bounces away and rolls to the Prince, who follows her. The girl moves and sings " shuttle, weave well, led the suitor in me. " This boat jumps in front of the door and weaves a precious carpet. The girl sews and sings " needle, needle, pointed and fine, clean the house do the suitors. " The needle bounces her away and pulls the room with rich cloth. When the prince comes, she gives him only the hand and becomes his bride.

Origin

The Pathengeschenke stands at Aurbacher directly in front of the gloomy orphanage story that KHM 185 The poor boy in the grave is based. Noticed Grimm Note the spindle, the shuttle, and needle are devices, with which the industrious have to create, and which now prove to the girl grateful. This magical protection function worked Wilhelm Grimm out by the godmother says, " Dear daughter, I feel that my end is approaching, I'll leave the house wherein you are protected from wind and weather, spindle, shuttle and needle so that you can earn your bread " ( template: See, dear daughter, I leave thee nothing, as a spindle, bobbin and needle out of this empty house). He describes the conductive spindle something elegant, like a thread of Ariadne, and designed to match the carpet with roses and lilies, deer and roe deer, etc. (template: Gold and Silver). The girl in simple dress glows with the Prince as a rose bush (template: roses and lilies in the face ). He took offense Relevant changes little, although he neuschrieb each set. Spindle, the shuttle, and needle were preserved in the treasury and held in great honor, but accounted Aurbachs conclusion that only the needle remained and since received princesses pin money. The verses read in the original: fine spindle, spindle already / hello to me the king's son; . Coil fine, coil already, / escort me to the king's son. ; Needle fine needle already, / receiver Ande me the king's son. Hans -Jörg Uther estimates that Aurbacher the story probably invented to promote religiously motivated improvement in dealing with orphans. Literary precursor or after-effects do not exist.