The Three Snake-Leaves
| The Three Snake-Leaves | |
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| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Three Snake-Leaves |
| Also known as | Die drei Schlangenblätter |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 612 |
| Country | Germany |
| Published in | Grimms' Fairy Tales |
"The Three Snake-Leaves" (
Synopsis
Via his valor in battle, a young man wins the king's daughter to wife, but has to agree to an unusual demand from the princess: if either of them should die, the other will be buried alive with the former.
Sometime later, the princess falls sick and dies, so the prince is buried alive in her crypt. While waiting to starve to death, the prince is attacked by a snake, which he kills by chopping into three pieces. Another snake revives the dead snake with three leaves, giving the prince the idea to use the leaves on the princess, successfully reviving her, but making her evil.
The prince and princess then take a
Analysis
Austrian consul
Professor Ulrich Marzolph indicated its parallel in Greek tradition, but also pointed that the motif of the animal reviving its mate with a plant can be found in the poem Eliduc by Marie de France.[3]
Hans-Jörg Uther noted literary predecessors in the Indian Panchatantra, in Apollodorus and in Hyginus.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Aarne, Antti; Thompson, Stith. The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1961. pp. 220–221.
- ^ Hahn, Johann Georg von. Griechische und Albanesische Märchen. Vol. I. München/Berlin: Georg Müller. 1918. pp. 86-92.
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- ISBN 978-951-41-0963-8.
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