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The Three Sons of Fortune

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A father bequeaths sons rooster, scythe and cat. They sell their inheritance. The cat's meow frightens the buyers and they shoot the cat with a cannon.

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

A father once had his three sons come before him and gave the first a rooster, the second a scythe, and the third a cat. I am already old,' he said, 'and my death is near, so I wanted to provide for you before my end. I don't have any money, and what I am giving you now seems to be of little value, but it only depends on you using it wisely: just look for a country where such things are still unknown, and your luck will be made. After his father's death, the eldest went out with his rooster, but wherever he went, the rooster was already known: in the cities he saw it sitting on the towers from afar, turning with the wind, in the villages he heard more than one crowing, and no one wanted to be surprised about the animal, so that it did not look as if he would make his fortune with it. Finally, however, he realized that he had come to an island where the people knew nothing about a rooster, and even did not know how to divide their time. They knew when it was morning or evening, but at night, when they didn't oversleep, nobody knew how to find out the time. Look,' he said, 'what a proud animal, it has a ruby crown on its head, and wears spurs like a knight: it calls you three times at night at a certain time, and when it calls the last time, the sun will soon rise. But if it calls you in broad daylight, be prepared for it, and the weather will certainly change. The people liked this, they did not sleep for a whole night and heard with great joy how the rooster called the time loudly and audibly at two four and six o'clock. They asked him if the animal was not for sale and how much he wanted for it. 'About as much as a donkey wears gold,' he replied. A mockery for such a precious animal,' they cried altogether, and gladly gave him what he had asked.

When he came home with the wealth, his brothers were astonished, and the second one said, "I will set out and see if I can get my scythe off as well. But it did not look like it, because everywhere he met peasants who had a scythe on their shoulder as well as he did. But at last he succeeded even on an island where the people knew nothing about a scythe. When the grain was ripe there, they brought up cannons in front of the fields and shot it down. Some of them overshot, others hit the ears of corn instead of the stalks and shot them away, causing a lot of damage, and on top of that there was a blasphemous noise. Then the man stood and mowed it down so quietly and so quickly that the people opened their mouths and noses in amazement. They were willing to give him what he asked for, and he got a horse loaded with as much gold as it could carry.

Now the third brother wanted to bring his cat to the right man. He was like the others, as long as he remained on dry land, nothing could be done, there were cats everywhere, and there were so many of them that the newborn boys were usually drowned in the water. At last he let himself be carried over to an island, and fortunately it happened that there had never been one before, and yet the mice had taken such over that they danced on the tables and benches, whether the master of the house was at home or not. The people lamented the plague, the king himself could not save himself in his castle: mice whistled in all corners and gnawed whatever they could grab with their teeth. So the cat began its hunt and had soon cleaned a few halls, and the people asked the king to buy the wonder animal for the kingdom. The king gladly gave what was asked for, which was a mule loaded with gold, and the third brother came home with the greatest treasures.

The cat took great delight in the mice in the royal castle and bit so many to death that they could no longer be counted. At last she was hot from her work and thirsty, so she stopped, turned her head up and cried, "Meow, meow. The king and all his people, when they heard the strange cry, were frightened and in their fear all ran out to the castle. Downstairs, the king held a council about the best thing to do; finally, it was decided to send a herald to the cat and to ask it to leave the castle, or to expect that force would be used against it. The councilors said 'we would rather be plagued by mice, we are used to evil, than give our lives to such a beast'. A nobleman had to go up and ask the cat 'if it would willingly leave the castle? But the cat, whose thirst had only increased, answered merely 'meow, meow.' The noble boy understood, not at all,' and delivered the answer to the king. Now,' said the councilors, 'she shall give way to violence.' Cannons were brought out and the house was set on fire. When the fire reached the room where the cat was sitting, it happily jumped out of the window; but the besiegers did not stop until the whole castle was shot to pieces.

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