The Boots of Buffalo Leather

The boots of buffalo leather is a fairy tale (ATU 952). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 6th edition of 1850 instead 199 (KHM 199) and comes from Friedmund von Arnim's collection hundred new tales collected in the mountains (No. 4 From Brother boots Schmeer ).

Content

A fearless, cavalier soldier wanders after his abdication in his old boots from buffalo leather around. He meets a hunter, whom he calls his finer clothes because " brother Brightboots ". You are looking at night in a house hideout, where she hides an old woman before twelve robbers coming home. When they find, because the soldier could no longer stand the smell of the roast and betrayed, they give them to eat before they want to kill them. The soldier so impressed with his appetite, he also gets wine. When he declares a health to them life to you all, but the mouth open and your right hand in the air, they are petrified. The two eat their fill, then they go home and the soldier brings his comrades to arrest the robbers. When the hunters are to recognize as king, startled the soldier, but from now on gets free food for you.

Origin

Grimm's note mentions the source from brother boots Schmeer from Friedmund von Arnim's hundred new tales collected in the mountains and yet another, equally good opinion in Wolf's Household Tales S. 65, the poor fellow. The plot is unchanged from Arnim, but Wilhelm Grimm added the many idioms and jargon soldiers, making the text when Grimm is longer. Heinz Rölleke on one: Ignoring path and bridge, but go through thick and thin, like and like attracts like, you shall learn how to fly on a dry bough, the guy makes no circumstances see your blue wonder nest full gallows birds, We are looking for a night's lodging and some lining for the stomach, because mine is as empty as an old knapsack, it will not go straight to the collar, began to brave hew in the roast, that would be marching too early, we have defeated the enemy, and must first take the booty, now it is time that we take the tent down. See KHM 81 Brother Lustig.