Three barbers

-

Three barons (German: Die drei Feldscherer) - a fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1815 in the collection of their Baśni (volume 2, no. 118). Contents

Three wandering barbers have stopped at the inn. They decided to show their skills to the innkeeper. One of them stated that he could cut off his hand and fix it on the second day. The other assured him that he could take out his heart and put it back on the second day. The third, in turn, promised to cut his eyes and put them back in the eye sockets on the second day. They were able to do it, thanks to the wonderful ointment they always carried with them and which allowed the growth of separated parts of the body.

To prove the truth of their words, the barbershs cut off those parts of the body that they promised. They handed them over to the innkeeper for safekeeping, and he entrusted them to the innkeeper to put them in the pantry. The next day, the barbers were to fix them back. However, the servant busy with serving his lover, soldier, left the door to the pantry open. A cat sneaked in and kidnapped body parts of barbers. The servant was distraught, but the soldier found advice. He put the heart of a pig on a plate, after a recent pig slaughter, and the eyes of a cat that he plucked after catching it. He cut the missing hand from the hangman-thief from a nearby gallows.

The barbers had secured the body parts brought by the servant the next day, because they did not realize at first that they were not theirs. Soon, however, they found out that something was wrong. The one with a pig's heart could not resist rolling in the trash. The one with feline eyes had problems seeing during the day, but in the dark he saw mainly mice. The one with a thieving hand could not stop himself from stealing.

When the barbers realized that they had not got their body parts, they decided to return to the inn. The servant at their sight fled the side gate and never came back. The innkeeper, fearing the revenge of the barbers who threatened him with setting the house on fire, paid them high compensation. They had enough money for their entire lives, but they would rather have recovered what they had lost. Bibliography

wiki

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pupo Román

-
José René "Pupo" Román Fernández (died 1961) - Dominican general. Curriculum vitae In the Dominican history, when the dictatorial president Rafael Leónidas Trujillo was in power, Roman was his niece's husband and "third person in the state" (Trujillo and SIM Arturo Espaillata). He was the Minister of Armed Forces, a close associate of Trujillo, which did not prevent him from accepting Trujillo's murder in 1961 from the American consul in the Dominican Republic, Henry Dearborn. He led to the murder of Rafael Trujillo on May 30, 1961, but he could not use this to overthrow his followers. He failed to arrest them along with Trujillo's sons such as Ramfis. Ultimately, the conspiracy ended with the conspirators' defeat when Zacarias - chauffeur Trujillo - survived the presidential bombardment and handed over the drafts of the bombers and Arturo Espaillat informed Roman about the death of the commander - at the sight of Arturo Espaillata Roman revealed ...
Read more

Myrmex Indikos

-
Myrmex Indikos, pol. Indian ant - an alleged species of gigantic ants (according to Herodot's description, larger than foxes, but smaller than dogs). The earliest mention of these creatures is dated to the fifth century BC, and its author is Herodotus. According to her, these ants inhabited the deserts of Persia and India and extracted gold from their sands. Several such creatures were kept in the residence of the King of Persia. Gold was to be obtained by caravans made up of several camels in the heat of the day, when the ants were protected underground. You had to do it quickly, because the ants sensed the smell of people and went on the pursuit, and they were deadly dangerous. This story is confirmed by the next accounts: Nearchos, one of the army officers of Alexander Macedoński, and Megastenes - a historian and traveler. The fragment of the Megasthenes (IV-III century BC) preserved in fragments can be seen in the underground mines at the foot of the mountains on the easte...
Read more

Names of streets and squares

-
The names of the streets and squares were originally of a topographical nature, that is, they informed about: Researchers propose two names for these toponyms - urban or plateonimy. S. Urbańczyk points out that the older names were spontaneously formed and sprouted in the daily lives of the inhabitants of the place. The information contained herein was related to the characteristics of the place (eg appearance), important road directions (geographic orientation) or values, functions and economic meanings called places / objects in the settlement for the inhabitants' lives. Former names are protected by law, but are often not respected by managers of the municipality, county or province. Currently the names of streets and squares are given by the commune authorities, county governors or voivodships. There is a tendency to use commemorative names, ie to commemorate deserving people and important events (eg Zygmunt August Street, 3. Maja Street). The names of the districts are ...
Read more