The Donkey (fairy tale)

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"The Ass", "The Donkey", or "The Little Donkey" (German: Das Eselein) is a German fairy tale collected by Brothers Grimm compiled in the Grimm's Fairy Tales.[1]

Tale type[]

"The Ass", "The Donkey" or "The Little Donkey" (Das Eselein) cataloged KHM 144 (since the second edition of the Grimms' Fairy Tales).[2][3][4]

This tale was not collected from oral recitation but was reworked by Wilhelm Grimm from the fourteenth-century Latin tale Asinarius.[5][6]

The piece is representative of the Aarne-Thompson tale type 430 "The Ass"[5][2] (or "The Donkey Bridegroom"[4]), and exhibits the motif D721.3 "Disenchantment by destroying skin (covering)".[5]

Synopsis[]

Further reading[]

  • Ziolkowski, Jan M. "The Beast and the Beauty: The Reorientation of "The Donkey" from the Middle Ages to the Brothers Grimm." The Journal of Medieval Latin 5 (1995): 53-94. www.jstor.org/stable/45019406.
  • Ziolkowski, Jan M. "The Reorientation of The Donkey Tale (ca. 1200)." In Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies, 200-30. ANN ARBOR: University of Michigan Press, 2007. www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.105158.11.

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References[]

Citations
  1. ^ Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Donkey"
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Thompson, Stith (1977). The Folktale. University of California Press. p. 100.
  3. ^ Ziolkowski (2010), pp. 168, 341ff
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Ashliman, D.L., "The Little Donkey"
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Aarne, Antti (1987). Thompson, Stith (ed.). The Types of the Folk-tale: A Classification and Bibliography. FF communications 84. p. 145.
  6. ^ Ziolkowski (2010), pp. 168, 200
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