Hans My Hedgehog

Hans My Hedgehog
Hans My Hedgehog meets the king on its chicken mount. Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde.
Folk tale
NameHans My Hedgehog
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 441
CountryGermany
Published inGrimm's Fairy Tales

"Hans My Hedgehog" (German: Hans mein Igel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 108). The tale was translated as Jack My Hedgehog by Andrew Lang and published in The Green Fairy Book.[1] It is of Aarne-Thompson type 441.[5][6]

The tale follows the events in the life of a diminutive half-hedgehog, half-human being named Hans, who eventually sheds his animal skin and turns wholly human after winning a princess.

  1. ^ Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green. 1892. pp. 304-310.
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  5. ^ Stith Thompson (1928),[2] 2nd Revision (1964);[3] Uther (2004).[4]
  6. ^ Ashliman, D. L. (2011). "Hans-My-Hedgehog". University of Pittsburgh.