The Golden Key (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

The golden key is a fairy tale (ATU 2260 ). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 200 ( KHM 200).

Content

A poor boy wants to slide to warm in the cold by the fire. He is under the snow a little golden key and under the earth an iron box. He expects " precious things ," says the little keyhole and unlocks. The narrator ends, you must wait now until he opened it.

Origin

The golden key is in Grimm's fairy tales from the second part of the first edition of 1815, always at last, from the penultimate edition of 1850 at 200th place. According to their note, the brothers Grimm had it from Hessen ( Wilhelm Grimm's note According to Marie Hassenpflug ). You mention a similar tale from the German language book by Adolf Gutbier of cock and hen, that find a little key in the manure and a box in which a short red silk warm fuzzies is, and it could have been longer, as well as the tale would have been longer.

The Brothers Grimm moved into the Vexiermärchen ( Neckmärchen, the expectations of the listener disappointed ) well allegorically on the fairy tale treasure to lift it and decipher. The fox and the goose has similar function for the first part appeared in 1812.