Looking for a Bride

The Bride Show is a farce (ATU 1452 ). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second edition of 1819 instead 155 (KHM 155) and comes from Johann Rudolf Wyss ' Idylls, folk tales, legends and stories from Switzerland (Note to The apple sample).

Content

A shepherd who wants to get married and can not decide between three sisters, advises his mother to invite them and see how they eat the cheese. The first devours him, the second cuts the bark from unclean, the third peels him properly. The he takes and lives happily with her.

Comparisons: KHM 156 The silt Erlinge.

Origin

Grimm's note is as a source to the annotation part to the apple sample at Johann Rudolf Wyss: A shepherd selects three sisters holding the right amount of cheese cutting. Grimm compare Meier at No. 30, Müllenhoff S. 413 and contactors fetch. Idiot. 1, 334, 35: A young man leaves his three sisters keys fall within the flat socks and takes that brings him the next day to him. Anders was the Persian narrative journey of the sons Giaffars where the züchtigste with fish covers the face, because males could be there.