The Three Army Surgeons

The three army-surgeons is a fairy tale (ATU 660). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 118 (KHM 118).

Content

Three army-surgeons ( doctors) in transit want to show their landlord that they hand, eye and heart cut out and can use again. A girl should keep the parts overnight, but the cat steals when she forgets because her lover to close the closet door. The lover, a soldier who takes the hand of a hanged man and the heart and mind of a pig and the cat. The set the field Scherer a morning. The host is impressed. But the road they realize that one always wants to run in the Mist, one arrived at, than for a rich does not look at his money, and a daytime looks bad, but at night, the mice in the dark. You turn around. The girl runs away, and the landlord has to pay them lots of money.

Origin

The farce fairytale is in the Children's and Household Tales since the second part of the first edition of 1815 ( as No. 32) contain in place 118. It comes from Dorothea cattle man ( From Zwehrn ). The report notes a variant of the Gesta Romanor: Two doctors put each other's eyes and to see who is better. A raven steals the one from the table. As he takes the goat, which henceforth always look up to the tree leaves. Furthermore Gewan an old German story as a künic Isan a cat Ouge: A king can be a cat's eye to use, because it can see at night, but is annoying as it then always seeks only mice.