The Griffin (fairy tale)
The griffin is a fairy tale (ATU 610, 570, 513B, 461 ). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 3rd edition of 1837 instead 165 (KHM 165) in Alemannic dialect. Otto Suter Master took it over in 1869 in his children 's and Household Tales from Switzerland as No. 28 The bird Gryf.
Content
The king's only daughter is sick and should eat healthy according to the prophecy of apples. If you bring any, they should be allowed to marry. A farmer sends out his eldest son, then the second with beautiful red apples. Along the way she speaks to an iron males what they carry. You answer " frogs leg " and " pig bristles " what it is then when they show it to the king, they continued chasing. The youngest called stupid Hans wants to go absolutely honest for males and heals the king's daughter with apples. The reluctant king calls for a boat which goes better on land than water. While the brothers pretend to make wooden unit, John is again open to the male and succeed. Now he has over a hundred hares to lose without one. He also resists the maid wants to borrow one. The sends the king's daughter, relieve him one, but the male gives Hans a whistle, which he retrieves it. Finally, the king calls on a spring from Griffin. Move Hans sleeping in a castle, where the key to the missing money and a box where a cure for the sick daughter is sought. A man wearing it over a water and seeks redemption from his office. The wife of the gripping hid it under his bed. He tears the sleeping at night from three springs. His wife reassured him each and elicits the answers: The key lies in a wooden house, a toad had built from the hair of the sick a nest, and the ferryman would only leave once a passenger in the water. For the answers Hans gets riches. The king also wants to the Griffin. The ferryman can drown him. Hans is king.
Origin and comparisons
The Brothers Grimm had the tale of Jerome Hagenbuch and Friedrich Schmid Wilhelm Wackernagel. They call as closely related to No. 13 in Müllenhoff and a danish at Etlar p. 129 ships at sea and on land ( Schiefner p 611 ) are perhaps the sun chariot.
The sentence against motivated action combines elements from different fairy tale types. See KHM 29 The devil with the three golden hairs, KHM 125 The devil and his grandmother, KHM 57 The Golden Bird, KHM 75a phoenix, KHM 64 The Golden Goose, KHM 97 The water of life, KHM 91 Dat Erdmänneken. A text from Grimms estate of 1840 only contains a similar rabbit episode. For support over the water at the end of the world see Christopher. See Giambattista Basile in Penta Meron IV, 6 The three crowns, IV, 8 The seven Täublein, V, 9 The three lemons. Deutsches See Hare guardians and the princess in Ludwig Bechstein's fairy tale book.
The conglomerate tale is known particularly in North and Central Europe. Janet Lynn Sutherland noticed an accumulation of healing and fertility -enhancing symbols, eg the frogs leg of the brothers, who may fail to recognize the true value of things.
Carl Gustav Jung mentioned the story in his treatise On the Phenomenology of the Spirit in the fairy tale as an example that the old way may also appear as a dwarf. Taking it Chlis isigs Manndle was probably an iron males to understand not Eismännchen. The text crawling with phonetic errors.