Johnny-Hedgehog
Jasio-Jeżyk (German: Hans mein Igel) - a fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1815 in the collection of their Baśni (volume 2, No. 108). Contents A rich host wanted to have a descendant. One day he said he must have a child, even if it was to be a hedgehog. Some time later his wife gave birth to a child whose upper half was covered with spikes. The child was called Jasio-Jeżyk. Father, he understood that he himself had sent this curse. He counted on the child dying, but Jasio quickly grew up. One day, when my father was going to the fair, Jasio asked him to buy bagpipes. After receiving this instrument, he asked his father to cover the cock, because he intends to leave the world. The father fulfilled his son's request, enjoying the spirit that he would get rid of him. Jasio took with him some sheep and pigs, which he intended to graze in the forest and went to the world on the cock. He settled in the forest, where, playing bagpipes, he grazed animals that were quick...