Clever Hans (fairy tale)

Clever Hans is a farce (ATU 1685, 1696 ). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 32 (KHM 32). There, the title The gescheidte Hans wrote.

Content

The Tale of Clever Hans, the transmit the Grimm brothers in the dialog text (the output of armor brings a second variant) is just as simple as instructive narrative that shows in each section, such as Hans in the experiment, the unreflective literal implementation of individual good advice repeatedly fails. So Hans brings a needle Gretel, his fiancée, home to the loaded hay onto a wagon and shall inform the Council of the mother to put the needle on the sleeves, at the next opportunity, which he borrows something without remember that now brought knives should be transported differently. At the end of the tale of the supposedly Clever Hans has done so not only considerable damage, but also lost his fiancée.

Grimm's Note

The Brothers Grimm note on the origin from the main areas (probably from family Hassenpflug ) and give a history of Freys Garden Society chapter. 1 again, which was in the first edition of 1812 still printed in the text part with: the mother wants to help her son to a daughter of a good family, he wants to have it. When the Virgin gives him fine gloves, they avoid him in the rain and in the bog. The mother scolds, he would have to wrap it in a handkerchief and carry on the breast. He then makes the next gift, a hawk. For this he brings the Harrow home on his hands and a piece of bacon on the tail of his horse, and it grab the dogs. At home he is drinking wine, spilling him and sprinkled flour on it so that it does not see the mother. Then he hits the goose 's head off, so they do not betray him, and tried to hatch their eggs himself by einschmiert with honey and bed springs. The mother wants to forgive him, so he should just throw the eyes polite and diligent in it. He stands sheep from the eyes of the bride and throws it in the face. The Brothers Grimm also give cemetery Wendunmuth ( 1565) 1, No. 81 to compare KHM 34 Clever Else and KHM 59 The Frieder and Catherine and still call Wolf's Journal 2, 386, the grandmother; Vogl S. 93; Zingerle p. 10; Meier No. 52; Hans Sachs Kempt. Output 2, 4, 138 The Kälberbrüten and 85-86 as in the preface to role Hagens Froschmeuseler ( from the silly and lazy Heinzen ); Bebelli facetiae ( Amst. 1651) 47-49; a children's song from seals from the Children's World, Hamburg 1815; Eyering 2, 116; Maids Comforter S. 92 ( 1663 ).

Grimm's fairy tales still contain two rhyming stories around marriages: KHM 38 The Wedding of Mrs. Fox and KHM 131 The beautiful and Pif Paf Katrinelje Poltrie. See also Meron Penta 1.4.