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