The Hut in the Forest
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Grimm's Fairy Tales |
"The Hut in the Forest" (also The Hut in the Wood; German: Das Waldhaus) is a German
Synopsis
A wood-cutter told his wife to have his oldest daughter bring him his dinner in the woods. She lost her way and in the night found a house with a gray-haired man and a
On the third day, the youngest ended up in the hut. She pet the animals, and when she had made supper for herself and the old man, also got barley for the birds and hay for the cow. She went upstairs to sleep, but at midnight, a sound like the house tearing apart woke her. Still, it stopped, and she went back to sleep In the morning, she found herself in a palace with a king's son, enchanted with three attendants. The king's son had been bewitched by an evil fairy to remain there as an old man until the arrival of a woman who is very kind to people and animals. He summoned her parents to the wedding, and made her sisters servants to a charcoal burner, until they learned not to leave poor animals to suffer hunger.
Analysis
The tale is classified in the
Tale type 431 is also found in Turkey, where the "House in the Woods" becomes a "House of Cats".[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Ashliman, D. L. (2020). "Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)". University of Pittsburgh.
- ^ Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book (1897), "The House in the Wood"
- ISBN 9789514109560.
- JSTOR 4317494.