The Fox and the Geese

The fox and the goose is an animal tale (ATU 227). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 86 (KHM 86).

Content

The fox wants a flock of geese eat and listen to no appeal than this, that they may still have a prayer. Then they want to then ask for him in a series. One after the other begins to cackle " ga! Ga! " And they no longer listen to.

The short text ends with the remark in brackets: And if they have been praying, the story should be told, but they still praying without stopping continued.

Comparisons

The Tale formed as number 86 the conclusion of the first volume of Children 's and Household Tales, published in 1812. It had similar function as the golden key ( No. 200) as an open completing the entire collection of fairy tales.

The Children 's and Household Tales contain a whole series of short fable or fluctuating like texts that seem to serve to characterize individual tale characters: the old Sultan, The Dog and the Sparrow, The three children of fortune, The wolf and the man, The Wolf and the fox, the fox and the Mrs. Gossip, the Fox and the Cat, tale of the toad, the Fox and the Horse, the Owl, The moon.

Parody

In Janoschs parody means the oldest goose, should keep the fox, is silent, therefore, as he eats up and takes him into the stable, where he eventually all just biting off the heads of one or the other.