The Beam (tale)

The rooster bar is a legend (ATU 987, 1290 ). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 149 (KHM 149) and is a reduction of Friedrich Kinds poem of the same in Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker Paperback for convivial pleasure of 1812.

Content

A girl who has become wise through a four leaf clover, is merely a magician who can wear a bar a rooster, which is only a straw. But he mocked her as she goes at her wedding with a raised rock by a stream, which is a flat field.

Origin

The Fluctuating type optical illusion ( Aath 987 ) shows the earlier dissemination traveling magicians and flax for fabric production (see KHM 14, 128, 156). Grimm's note cites the source, the poem by Friedrich Becker's Child in paperback, is still a paderbörnische version (probably of the family of Haxthausen ) again and compares Rubezahl, a legend in Mones Scoreboard 1835. S. 408 and the legend of Rodulf and Rumetrud ( Grimm German Legends, No. 395 ). The story is also in the collection Tell the bohemian past, which appeared anonymously in 1808, is inserted into the narrative of the sounding forest cottage.

The Brothers Grimm version corresponds to the normal form, which is widespread throughout central Europe. The valve can be replaced by a tightrope walker, the shamrock by a snake, dead toad, a salamander or that the girl is born on Sunday or Christmas Eve. In the Baltics, the magician apparently crawling through a log. The Central European form is in Wolfgang Bütners Epitome historiarum ( 1576, pp. 115 ff ) and is in Johannes Praetorius ' Philosophia colus (1662, p 59 ) is reproduced in connection with a shamrock. The rooster with the beam comes into Étienne de Bourbon 's Tractatus de diversis mate riis praedicabilibus ago (13th century), and later with John Gastius, Augustin Lercheimer, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausenmuseum. The magic of water is already in the vita of Leo of Catania in connection with the sorcerer Heliodorus in the 8th century in Sicily before, the so passing by women was lifting the clothes later in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in the Histoire de Valentin et Orson, in the Faust Book of 1587, popularly book from The Wizard Virgil.

Swimming in the flat field ( Aath 1290 ) comes first in Paul the Deacon ' Historia Langobardorum ago (8th century). It adorns Dummenschwänke, especially with yourself Aath 1287 can not count. See KHM 119 The Seven Swabians; from Grimm German Legends # 395 saga of Rodulf and Rumetrud.