Frederick and Catherine
The Frieder and Catherine is a farce (ATU 1387, 1541, 1385 *, 1291, 1653). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 in place of 59 (KHM 59). There, the title The Frieder and Catherine wrote.
Content
Frieder required by Catherine food and drink when he comes home from the field. The dog steals the sausage from the pan, as it taps into the beer. While she runs after him, running out of the barrel. It dries on the beer with the flour, the pitcher topples over. Frieder buries gold in the barn. You must not it, but it says shopkeepers who run away with it and leave some their dishes. It provides it with broken floors on piles around the house. As they pursue the thieves, it lags and lubricates the butter in ruts in the ground so that the poor earth is less depressed. A cheese rolls away. She sends the other after that they get him, but they did not come back. Frieder sends close the house and get another meal. She brings vinegar and dried pears ( dried pears ) and brings the door for safekeeping with. Get off to sleep on a tree under which happen to meet the robbers. Frieder throwing stones, but does not apply, the robbers they deem pine cones. Dried pears and vinegar that Catherine be too hard, think of bird droppings and dew. Only when the door comes, they think the devil, and the two take home their gold. Catherine is to cut fruit. It eats first, then it cuts fatigue his clothes. It does not know and asks at the door, if it is already there. When it hears " yes ", it runs away. It leads to the village of thieves, but calls so loudly that they send it to pluck turnips. There, it keeps a man for the devil and brings the priest. As it stands up, both run away.
Origin
The text is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 as No. 59 ( Prince swan instead of the 1st edition ). They followed V.A. loud note a story from Zwehrn ( by Dorothea cattle man). From another point the Hessian comes with butter and cheese, from Fritzlar the buried counters for playing games ( in the version zwehrner a Hasenbalg ). In one of the areas Diemel the woman to bring meat in cabbage into the field, it puts into raw cabbage field. The dog eats it. She ties him for the beer tap. So the beer runs out, dried it with flour and vinegar and bring to the man of dried apples and the front door. They flee from predators and prey on a tree as in the other version the gold. Due to the neighbor from which the woman lends a measure of the gold, experience it all, but be slain in the forest by the robbers. The note also mentions Colshorn No. 37; Norwegian Asbjörnsen at p 202; for throwing down the door to the rogues Kuhn and Black # 13; partially Vardiello in Giambattista Basile's Penta Meron I, 4; Morlini No. 49; makes two Slavonian fairy tales in Vogl, the master liar S. 64 65 and Hans at school S. 83, the follies of other species.
See KHM 34 Clever Else, KHM 34a Trine Hansen, KHM 104 The wise people, KHM 27 The Bremen Town Musicians. The manuscript from en un siner man earlier in Grimm's estate contains similar pranks. See Giambattista Basile in Penta Meron I, 4 Vardiello. See the two brothers in Ludwig Bechstein's New German fairy tale.
Interpretation
Erika Alma Butcher interprets the symbolic self- fragmentation and identity crisis, the doubt whether it is indoors or outdoors, as depersonalization or splitting of consciousness. This tends to as early as the first funny sounding name Catherine of which can be derived from Katharina and Elisabeth, ie a martyr and a saint. Your self-forgetful devotion to chthonic powers as wasted as Earth Mother the food senseless to the earth and the reputation of the thieves, the devil is come down from the tree take even the later judgment of the pastor in advance. Your stupidity is here no longer funny in the sense of farce, at the same time lacks the fairytale logic of the successful overcoming of evil. The narrative intention was probably that of a deterrent example of village life, so that the exact mental disorder was no longer to open up.