The Three Spinners

The three spinners is a fairy tale (ATU 501). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 14 (KHM 14). In the first edition of the title was from the evil spiders flat.

Content

A lazy girl is beaten by his mother because it does not want to spin. The outside passing queen hears the screams. Out of shame about the laziness of the daughter 's mother told that she could not keep from spinning her daughter. Since it takes the queen to her castle and shows her three chambers fully flax. If they have the spun into yarn that she should marry her son, though she was poor. When she comes back on the third day, the daughter can not apologize, they have not been able to start from homesickness. Then three old women come to her, the first has a broad flat foot, the second is a large hanging lower lip, the third one broad thumb. They spin her flax. For this, they should invite them to the wedding, it will be their happiness. The Prince responds amazed at the three bases his bride. When they tell you where they got their blemishes, he decides that his wife never has to spin again.

Grimm's Note

The tale is always at Grimm instead of 14, from the 2nd edition on a story from the principality Corvei ( by Paul Wigand ), in the first edition after a Hessian version ( by Jeanette Hassenpflug ) as from the evil flat spiders ( from the also the number three and the specific blemishes the spinners were retained ): the king of town and leaves his daughters much flax there because he has so much. To save them, the Queen invites the deformities and shows it to him on his return. In John Praetorius ' The abentheuerliche lucky dip S. 404-406 ( 1669) is a base wide from sitting, one has a giant nose because it has mouth licked, and has a flat thumb by twisting the thread. The plot is similar to the Grimms. When Theodor Pescheck are dripping eye from dust flat, a large mouth and thick shape. Grimm still call a place in Karl waste Hoffs legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1845, No. 8) and a Norwegian and a Swedish.

Too lazy and industrious spinners see KHM 24 Mother Holle, KHM 55 Rumpelstiltskin, KHM 128 The Lazy Spinner, KHM 156 The silt Erlinge, KHM 188 spindle, shuttle, and needle, also KHM 49 The Six Swans, KHM 181 The Mermaid in the pond. The plot similar to that of Giambattista Basile Penta Meron IV, 4 The seven rinds. Also think of the three Fates from Greek mythology, which meter the individual his fate.