The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) (26 page)

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

Secondary Literature:

EM “Wassergeister” (in prep.)

THE KING’S RING

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 050 (“Die drey Riesen und die drey Jäger”)

Tale Type:

ATU 304 “The Dangerous Night-Watch”; KHM 111 “The Skillful Huntsman”

THE THREE GOLDEN CROWNS

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 985 (“Die drey Königstöchter”)

Tale Type:

ATU 301 “The Three Stolen Princesses”; KHM 91 “The Gnome”; KHM 166 “Strong Hans”

NINE BAGS OF GOLD

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 199 (untitled)

Town:

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

TWO BROTHERS

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 6c, sheet 51-52; ZA Marburg No. 202 255 (“Das Hexenschloß im Walde”)

Tale Type:

ATU 303 “The Twins or Blood-Brothers”; KHM 60 “The Two Brothers”

TRICKING THE WITCH

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 256 (“Die drei Königtöchter”)

Tale Type:

ATU 313 “The Magic Flight”; KHM 51 “Foundling-Bird”; KHM 113 “The Two Kings’ Children”

THE ENCHANTED FIDDLE

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 6c, sheet 87-88; ZA Marburg No. 202 691 (“Die Zaubergeige” and “Von einem Knaben, dem seine Mutter wünscht, dem Teufel zu dienen”)

Tale Type:

ATU 475 “The Man as Heater of Hell’s Kettle”; ATU 592 “The Dance Among Thorns”; KHM 100 “The Devil’s Sooty Brother”

THE DEVIL AND THE FISHERMAN

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 577 (untitled)

Tale Type:

ATU 400 “The Man on a Quest for His Lost Wife”

THE EXPERT HUNTER

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 958 (“Hans und die Riesen”)

Town:

Neukirchen (Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut, County Cham; Neukirchen-Balbini, County Schwandorf; Neukirchen, County Schwandorf; Neukirchen/Hemau, County Regensburg or Neukirchen b. Sulzbach-Rosenberg, County Amberg)

Tale Type:

ATU 304 “The Dangerous Night-Watch”; KHM 111 “The Skillful Huntsman”

A POT OF GOLD IN THE OVEN

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 15, sheet 31; ZA Marburg No. 203 080 (“Der Landsknecht mit dem Schatz”)

Town:

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

Tale Type:

ATU 1381 “The Talkative Wife and the Discovered Treasure”

CONTESTS WITH THE DEVIL

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 854 (untitled)

Tale Type:

ATU 820 “The Devil as Substitute for Day Laborer at Mowing”; ATU 1063 “Throwing a Club”; ATU 1084 “Screaming or Whistling Contest”

WOUD AND FREID

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, II, p. 312–14 (untitled)

Town:

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

Tale Type:

ATU 590 “The Faithless Mother”

THE MOUSE CATCHER, OR THE BOY AND THE BEETLE

Source:

ZA Marburg 202 765 (untitled) and 202 241 (“Der Knabe mit dem Käfer”)

Secondary Literature:

Uther, H.-J.:
Rattenfänger von Hameln
. In: EM 11, col. 300-7

PEARL TEARS

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, III, p. 311–17 (“Von A. L. Frauen”)

Town:

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

Tale Type:

ATU 710 “Our Lady’s Child”

FLOUR FOR SNOW

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, II, p. 137–39 (untitled)

Tale Type:

ATU 759 “Angel and Hermit”

HOYDEL

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 229 (“Der Höydl”)

Town:

Wildenreuth (Wildenreuth/Erbendorf, County Tirschenreuth)

Tale Type:

ATU 756C “The Two Sinners”

THE TALKER

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 6c, sheet 50 (“Der däppische Bauer”)

Tale Type:

ATU 1643 “Money Inside the Statue”

THE CLEVER TAILOR

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 203 003 (“Der kluge Schneider”)

Tale Type:

ATU 1536 “Disposing of the Corpse”; ATU 1539 “Cleverness and Gullibility”

LEARNING HOW TO STEAL

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 203 009 (untitled)

Informant:

“Katherl”

Tale Type:

ATU 1525 “The Master Thief”

“DON’T GET MAD!”

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 6c, sheet 45; ZA Marburg No. 203 002 (“Nicht zornig werden”)

Tale Type:

ATU 1000 “Contest Not to Become Angry”

OFERLA

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 6c, sheet 60; ZA Marburg No. 203 048 (“Geschichte”)

Town:

Neukirchen (Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut, County Cham; Neukirchen-Balbini, County Schwandorf; Neukirchen, County Schwandorf; Neukirchen/Hemau, County Regensburg or Neukirchen b. Sulzbach-Rosenberg, County Amberg)

Tale Type:

ATU 1536 “Disposing of the Corpse”; ATU 1537 “The Corpse Killed Five Times”

SIR WIND AND HIS WIFE

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, II, p. 109–12 (“Warum der Wind vom Meere her weht”)

Town:

Tiefenbach (Tiefenbach, County Cham; Tiefenbach/Nittenau, County Schwandorf or Tiefenbach/Kemnath, County Tirschenreuth)

Secondary Literature:

Ward, D.: Glasberg. In: EM 5, col. 1265–70

THE ICE GIANTS

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, III, p. 362–64 (untitled)

Town:

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

WHY SNOW IS WHITE

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, II, p. 136–37 (untitled)

Town:

Neuenhammer (Neuenhammer/Georgenberg, County Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab)

THE SUN TAKES AN OATH

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, II, p. 57–59 (“Sagenkreis von Sonne und Mond”)

THE SUN’S SHADOW

Source:

Schönwerth:
Sitten und Sagen
, III, p. 9 (untitled)

Town:

Lind (Lind/Oberviechtach, County Schwandorf)

Secondary Literature:

Lox, H.: Tod. In: EM 13, col. 696–712

WHAT THE MOON TRIED TO WEAR

Source:

Schönwerth: Compound entry I, folder 2, sheet 27; ZA Marburg No. 202 932 (“Mondsage”)

Secondary Literature:

Meinel, G.: Mond. In: EM 9, col. 795-802; Neumann, S.: Schneider. In: EM 12, col. 140-45

THE SINGING TREE

Source:

ZA Marburg No. 202 056 (“Der Schneider im Baum”)

Secondary Literature:

Neumann, S.: Schneider. In: EM 12, col.
140-45

*
As Stephen Swann Jones puts it, “fairy tales depict magical or marvelous events or phenomena as a valid part of human experience.” See his
Fairy Tales: The Magic Mirror of Imagination
(New York: Routledge, 2002), 9.

*
Vladimir Nabokov,
Lectures on Literature
, ed. Fredson Bowers (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1998), 5.

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