| The Peasant's Wise Daughter | |
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.png) The once peasant queen drugs her husband, the king. Illustration from Grimm's Household Tales (1912), by R. Anning Bell. | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Peasant's Wise Daughter |
| Also known as | Die kluge Bauerntochter; The Peasant's Clever Daughter; The Clever Lass (Joseph Jacobs) |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 875 (The Clever Farmgirl)[1] |
| Region | Germany, Eurasia, |
| Published in | Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm |
"The Peasant's Wise Daughter", "The Peasant's Clever Daughter" or "The Clever Lass" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales as tale number 94.[2] It has also spread into Bohemia and Božena Němcová included it into her collection of Czech national folk tales in 1846.[3]
It is Aarne-Thompson type 875 ("The Clever Farmgirl").[4] This type of tale is the commonest European tale dealing with witty exchanges.[5]
- ^ Haase, Donald. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2007. p. 353.
- ^ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household Tales, "The Peasant's Clever Daughter"
- ^ Rožánek, Filip (2008-12-18). "Chytrá horákyně (Božena Němcová)". Český rozhlas (in Czech). Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Uther, Hans-Jorg. The Types of International Folktales. 2004.
- ^ Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 158-9, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977