The Sea-Hare

The Sea-Hare
The Sea-Hare
Folk tale
Name	The Sea-Hare
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 554
Country	Germany
Published in	Grimms' Fairy Tales

"The Sea-Hare'" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 191.^[1]

It is Aarne-Thompson type 554, The Grateful Animals, and similar to 851, Winning the Princess with a Riddle.^[2]

Stith Thompson classified the tale as AT 329, "Hiding from the Devil (Princess)", tales where the hero must hide from the princess's mirror or windows that can peer into the whole world.^[3]

Synopsis

A princess had a magical tower with twelve windows, and whenever she looked from a window, she saw more clearly from it than the one before. Being haughty, she had no wish to marry, and decreed that any suitor must hide from her to win her, but if she found him, he was to lose his head. After ninety-seven lost their lives, three brothers presented themselves, and the first two lost. The youngest son asked for three tries. He went hunting and spared a raven, a fish, and a fox. The raven tried to hide him in an egg, where he could be seen only from the eleventh window. The fish swallowed him, where he could be seen only from the twelfth. The fox turned him into a pretty "sea-hare" (an uncertain mammal) and sold him to the princess. When she went to the windows, he hid in her hair. She could not see him, and angrily threw the sea-hare out of her hair. He sneaked off, the fox restored him, he went to claim her, and they married.

Adaptations

Two Hungarian variants of the tale were adapted into episodes of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") (hu), with the titles Zöld Péter ("Green Peter") and Kiskondás ("The Little Swineherd").

References

^ Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Sea-Hare"
^ D.L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"
^ Thompson, Stith (1977). The Folktale. University of California Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-520-03537-2

External links

Works related to The Sea-Hare at Wikisource
Zöld Péter at IMDb
Kiskondás at IMDb

[1] Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Sea-Hare"

[Ashliman-2] D.L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"

[3] Thompson, Stith (1977). The Folktale. University of California Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-520-03537-2

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