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The Peasant's Wise Daughter

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A peasant does not listen to his daughter and is arrested. The daughter passes king's test and becomes queen.

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 poor farmer who had no land, only a small house and an only daughter, so the daughter said 'we should ask the king for a piece of red land'. When the king heard of their poverty, he also gave them a corner of lawn, which she and her father hoed, and wanted to sow a little grain and the kind of fruit on it. When they had almost finished the field, they found a mortar of pure gold in the earth. Listen,' said the father to the girl, 'because our lord the king has been so gracious and has given us this field, we must give him the mortar for it.' The daughter, however, would not grant it and said, 'Father, if we have the mortar and do not have the pestle, then we must also bring the pestle, so you had better keep quiet'. But he would not obey her, so he took the mortar and carried it to the king, saying that he had found it on the heath and would he accept it as a worship. The king took the mortar and asked if he had found anything else? No, answered the farmer. Then the king said he should now also bring the pestle. The farmer said they had not found it, but that helped him as much as if he had said into the wind, he was put in prison and was to sit there until he had brought the pestle.

The servants had to bring him water and bread every day, which is what you get in prison, and they heard the man crying out, "Oh, if I had belonged to my daughter! Oh, oh, if I had belonged to my daughter! Then the servants went to the king and said how the prisoner cried out, "Oh, if only I had belonged to my daughter," and would not eat or drink. Then he ordered the servants to bring the prisoner before him, and the king asked him why he had cried out, "Oh, if I had listened to my daughter! What did your daughter say then? If you have such a clever daughter, let her come here. So she had to come before the king, who asked her if she was so clever, and said he wanted to give her a riddle, if she could solve it, then he wanted to marry her. She immediately said yes, she wanted to guess. Then the king said, "Come to me, not dressed, not naked, not riding, not driving, not in the way, not out of the way, and if you can do that, I will marry you. So she went, and stripped herself naked, she was not clothed, and took a large fish-twine, and sat down in it, and wrapped it all around herself, she was not naked: And borrowed a donkey for the money, and tied the fish yarn to the donkey's tail, in which he had to drag her away, and was that not ridden and not driven: but the donkey had to drag her in the track, so that she came to the ground only with her big toe, and was that not in the way and not out of the way. And as she came along, the king said that she had met the riddle and that everything had been fulfilled. Then he released her father from prison and took her as his wife, entrusting her with all the royal property.

Now some years had passed, when the king once went on parade, it happened that farmers with their wagons stopped in front of the castle, they had sold wood; some had oxen harnessed, and some had horses. There was a farmer who had three horses, one of which got a young filly that ran away and lay down in the middle between two oxen that were in front of the wagon. When the farmers came together, they began to quarrel, to throw and to make noise, and the ox farmer wanted to keep the stuffing and said the oxen had it, and the other said no, his horses had it, and it was his. The quarrel came before the king, and he said that where the stuffing had been, it should stay; and so the ox farmer, to whom it did not belong, got it. Then the other one went away, cried and lamented about his stuffing. Now he had heard that the queen was so gracious, because she had also come from poor farmers: he went to her and asked her if she could not help him to get his stuffing back. She said, "Yes, if you promise not to betray me, I will tell you. Tomorrow morning, when the king is on guard parade, stand in the middle of the street where he must pass, take a large fishing yarn and act as if you were fishing, and so fish away and pour out the yarn as if you had it full,' and also told him what he should answer if he were asked by the king. So the next day the farmer stood fishing in a dry place. When the king passed by and saw this, he sent his runner to ask what the foolish man was up to. There he gave the answer 'I fish'. The runner asked how he could fish, because there was no water. Said the farmer 'as well as two oxen can get a fill, so well I can also fish on the dry place'.

The runner went and brought the king the answer, then he summoned the farmer and told him that he had not heard it from himself, from whom he had heard it: and he should confess it immediately. But the peasant would not do it, and said, God forbid, he had it from himself. But they laid him on a bundle of straw and beat and tortured him until he confessed that he had it from the queen. When the king came home, he said to his wife, "Why are you so wrong with me, I no longer want you as my wife: your time is up, go back to where you came from, to your farmhouse. But he allowed her one thing, she should take with her the dearest and best she knew, and that should be her farewell. She said, 'Yes, dear husband, if you order it that way, I will do it too,' and fell upon him and kissed him and said she wanted to say goodbye to him. Then she sent for a strong sleeping draught to drink farewell with him: the king took a large draught, but she drank only a little. Soon he fell into a deep sleep, and when she saw this, she called a servant and took a beautiful white linen cloth and wrapped him in it, and the servants had to carry him in a carriage to the door, and she drove him home to her little house. There she put him in her little bed, and he slept day and night all at once, and when he woke up, he looked around and said, "Oh, God, where am I?" and called his servants, but there was no one there. At last his wife came to the bedside and said, "My dear King, you ordered me to take the best and most beautiful things from the castle, and now I have nothing better and more beautiful than you, so I took you with me. The king's eyes filled with tears, and he said, 'Dear wife, you shall be mine and I yours,' and he took her back to the royal palace and married her again, and they will live to this day.

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