Going a Traveling

Up Travel gohn ( When traveling, go ) is a farce (ATU 1696 ). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second edition of 1819 instead 143 (KHM 143).

Content

A mother advises her son from traveling from, because they are poor, but he wants to help and always say. " Not much, not much, not much," Therefore, he is beaten up by fishermen because they really catch little. When he asked what he should have said " full, get it full, full. " But he is defeated at an execution. He should rather say: " God have pity on the poor soul. " This in turn irritates a Pferdehäuter in a ditch. For the sentence " there lies the carrion in the pit " he is whipped by coach people so that he and never goes heimkriecht traveling.

Origin

Grimm situate above version in Münster and describe another from the Paderborn 's with new jokes (probably both family of Haxthausen ). Similarly them appear even jokes about hard of hearing or who deliberately wrong -understand tailor's wife ( The Youth's Magic Horn: We do not understand ), Jan posset with Jacob Ayrer and the disciple of the Indian guru Nudle.

The fairy tale researcher Hans -Jörg Uther called the origin a handwritten version of Jenny von Droste- Hulshoff and compares a version in Martin Montanuss Garden Society (No. 50 ) and Michael Christoph Benz ' New explanation InGender cheering sound. Dummenschwänke had since the late Middle Ages popular (see KHM 7, 32, 34, 59, 104, 164), here as a chain story (see KHM 30, 80, 131). Attractive the text is by its realism.