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Gambling Hansel

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Spielhansel takes in God and Peter and is given cards and dice that always win and a miracle tree. He cheats death and lives forever.

Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
Marienkind
Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen
Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein
Der treue Johannes
Der gute Handel
Der wunderliche Spielmann
Die zwölf Brüder
Das Lumpengesindel
Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
Rapunzel
Die drei Männlein im Walde
Die drei Spinnerinnen
Hänsel und Gretel
Die drei Schlangenblätter
Die weiße Schlange
Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
Von dem Fischer und seiner Frau
Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Aschenputtel
Das Rätsel
Von dem Mäuschen, Vögelchen und der Bratwurst
Frau Holle
Die sieben Raben
Rotkäppchen
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Der singende Knochen
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
Läuschen und Flöhchen
Das Mädchen ohne Hände
Der gescheite Hans
Die drei Sprachen
Die kluge Else
Der Schneider im Himmel
Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack
Daumesdick
Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin
Die Wichtelmänner
Der Räuberbräutigam
Herr Korbes
Der Herr Gevatter
Frau Trude
Der Gevatter Tod
Daumerlings Wanderschaft
Fitchers Vogel
Von dem Machandelboom
Der alte Sultan
Die sechs Schwäne
Dornröschen
Fundevogel
König Drosselbart
Schneewittchen
Der Ranzen, das Hütlein und das Hörnlein
Rumpelstilzchen
Der liebste Roland
Der goldene Vogel
Der Hund und der Sperling
Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen
Die zwei Brüder
Das Bürle
Die Bienenkönigin
Die drei Federn
Die goldene Gans
Allerleirauh
Häsichenbraut
Die zwölf Jäger
Von dem Sommer- und Wintergarten
Jorinde und Joringel
Die drei Glückskinder
Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt
Der Wolf und der Mensch
Der Wolf und der Fuchs
Der Fuchs und die Frau Gevatterin
Der Fuchs und die Katze
Die Nelke
Das kluge Gretel
Der alte Großvater und der Enkel
Die Wassernixe
Von dem Tode des Hühnchens
Bruder Lustig
Der Spielhansl
Hans im Glück
Hans heiratet
Die Goldkinder
Der Fuchs und die Gänse
Der Arme und der Reiche
Das singende, springende Löweneckerchen
Die Gänsemagd
Der junge Riese
Das Erdmännchen
Der König vom goldenen Berg
Die Rabe
Die kluge Bauerntochter
Der alte Hildebrand
Die drei Vögelchen
Das Wasser des Lebens
Doktor Allwissend
Der Geist im Glas
Des Teufels rußiger Bruder
Der Bärenhäuter
Der Zaunkönig und der Bär
Der süße Brei
Die klugen Leute
Märchen von der Unke
Der arme Müllerbursch und das Kätzchen
Die beiden Wanderer
Hans mein Igel
Das Totenhemdchen
Der Jude im Dorn
Der gelernte Jäger
Der Dreschflegel vom Himmel
Die beiden Königskinder
Vom klugen Schneiderlein
Die klare Sonne bringts an den Tag
Das blaue Licht
Das eigensinnige Kind
Die drei Feldscherer
Die sieben Schwaben
Die drei Handwerksburschen
Der Königssohn, der sich vor nichts fürchtet
Der Krautesel
Die Alte im Wald
Die drei Brüder
Der Teufel und seine Großmutter
Ferdinand getreu und Ferdinand ungetreu
Der Eisenofen
Die faule Spinnerin
Die vier kunstreichen Brüder
Einäuglein, Zweiäuglein und Dreiäuglein
Die schöne Katrinelje und Pif Paf Poltrie
Der Fuchs und das Pferd
Die zertanzten Schuhe
Die sechs Diener
Die weiße und die schwarze Braut
Der Eisenhans
Die drei schwarzen Prinzessinnen
Knoist und seine drei Söhne
Das Mädchen von Brakel
Das Hausgesinde
Das Lämmchen und Fischchen
Simeliberg
Auf Reisen gehen
Das Eselein
Der undankbare Sohn
Die Rübe
Das junggeglühte Männlein
Des Herrn und des Teufels Getier
Der Hahnenbalken
Die alte Bettelfrau
Die drei Faulen
Das Hirtenbüblein
Die Sterntaler
Der gestohlene Heller
Die Brautschau
Die Schlickerlinge
Der Sperling und seine vier Kinder
Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland
Das Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen
Rätselmärchen
Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot
Der kluge Knecht
Der gläserne Sarg
Der faule Heinz
Der Vogel Greif
Der starke Hans
Das Bürle im Himmel
Die hagere Liese
Das Waldhaus
Lieb und Leid teilen
Der Zaunkönig
Die Scholle
Rohrdommel und Wiedehopf
Die Eule
Der Mond
Die Lebenszeit
Die Boten des Todes
Meister Pfriem
Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen
Die ungleichen Kinder Evas
Die Nixe im Teich
Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes
Der Riese und der Schneider
Der Nagel
Der arme Junge im Grab
Die wahre Braut
Der Hase und der Igel
Spindel, Weberschiffchen und Nadel
Der Bauer und der Teufel
Die Brosamen auf dem Tisch
Das Meerhäschen
Der Meisterdieb
Der Trommler
Die Kornähre
Der Grabhügel
Oll Rinkrank
Die Kristallkugel
Jungfrau Maleen
Die Stiefel von Büffelleder
Der goldene Schlüssel

Once upon a time there was a man who did nothing but gamble, and people called him "Gambling Hansel", and because he never stopped gambling, he gambled away his house and everything. Now, on the very last day, when his house was to be taken away from him, our Lord God and St. Peter came and said that he should keep them with him overnight. Then Gambling Hansel said, "Because of me, you can stay there for the night; but I can't give you a bed or anything to eat."" Then our Lord God said that he should only take them in, and they would buy themselves something to eat; that was fine with the minstrel. Then St. Peter gave him three pennies, and with that he was supposed to go to the baker and get some bread. Now the minstrel went. But when he came to the house where the other gambling rags were, who had won everything from him, they called out and shouted: "Hansl, come on in! - Yes," he said, "I want to win the three pennies from you too. But they did not leave out. Now he just went in and gambled away the three pennies as well.

But St. Peter and our Lord God were always waiting, and as he did not come for such a long time, they went to meet him. But the gambler, when he saw them coming, acted as if the three pennies had fallen into a pool of water and poked around in it eagerly: but our Lord already knew that he had gambled them away. So St. Peter gave him another three pennies. But now he was no longer tempted and brought them the bread. Then our Lord God asked him if he did not have any wine; then he said, ""O Lord, the barrels are all empty."" Then our Lord God told him to go down to the cellar, there was still the best wine down there. He didn't want to believe it for a long time, but finally he said: "I want to go down, but I know that there is none down there. But when he tapped the barrel, the best wine came out. Now he brought them the wine and the two of them stayed overnight. The next day, early in the morning, our Lord God told Gambling Hansel to ask for three graces. He thought he would ask for heaven, but Gambling Hansel asked for cards with which he would win everything, and for dice with which he would win everything, and for a tree on which all fruit grows, and when one climbs up that he cannot come down again until he commands him to do so. Now our Lord God has given him everything he asked for, and has gone away again with St. Peter.

Now the Gambling Hansel really started to play and would soon have won half the world together. Then St. Peter said to our Lord God: "Lord, this thing is not good, he will win the whole world in the end; we must send him death". And that's when they sent him death. When Death came, Gambling Hansel was sitting at the game, of course, and Death said, "Hansl, come out for a bit!" But the minstrel said: "Wait until the game is over, and in the meantime climb that tree out there and break off a bit so that we have something to eat on the way. So Death climbed up the tree, and when he wanted to come down again, he couldn't, and the gambler left him up there for seven years, and in the meantime no one ever died again.

Then St. Peter said to our Lord God: "Lord, this thing does no good; no one dies anymore; we have to open ourselves up. So now they have already come themselves and our Lord God ordered Gambling Hansel that he should lower death. So he went right away and said to Death: "Go down," and he took him right away and strangled him. So they left together and went to the other world. Then my plaything went to the gate of heaven and knocked there. "Who is outside?" - "The minstrel." - "Oh, we don't need him, just go away again." So he went to Purgatory and knocked again. "Who's outside?" - "The minstrel." - "Oh, it's already misery and hardship enough with us, we don't want to play. Just go away again." So he went to the gate of hell, and there they let him in; but there was no one at home but old Lucifer and a few crooked devils (the straight ones were busy in the world), and there he sat down at once and began to play again. But Lucifer had nothing but his crooked devils. The Gambling Hansel won them from him, because he had to win everything with his cards. Now the Gambling Hansel is gone with his crooked devils, and there they have gone to Hohenfürt and have torn out the hop poles and have gone up to the sky with it and have started to push, and now the sky has already cracked. Then St. Peter said again, ""Lord, this thing does no good, we must let him in, or he will throw the sky down on us."" Now they let him in. But the man started to play again, and there was such a noise and such a hubbub that one could not understand his own words. Then St. Peter said again: "Lord, this thing is not good, we must throw him out, otherwise he will make the whole heaven rebellious. Now they came upon him and threw him out, and there his soul was divided and went into all the playthings that are still alive to this day.

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