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Bearskin (German fairy tale)

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disappears. Clean and rich, Bearskin dresses himself as a fine gentleman and goes to the old man's house, where the older sisters serve him, but his bride does not recognize him. Bearskin tells the old man that he will marry one of his daughters. The two older sisters run off to dress splendidly, and Bearskin drops his half of the ring into a wine cup and gives it to his bride. She drinks the wine and upon finding the half ring, realizes that he is her bridegroom and they marry.
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to work for the devil and eventually, the devil gives up and allows the child to leave his service for good if he takes a large bag of money and only does good with it in seven years. The child does good in the seven years and returns to the devil and is then freed from the devil's service and lives a happy life.
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himself is heavily in debt, and gives one of his daughters to Pron'ka in order to secure another loan. The American, upon returning to his homeland afterwards, is criticized for wasting all the time and money, but the criticism ends once the others learn that the Tsar's other two daughters, horrified
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The hero of the German version is a soldier. The tale was collected at a time at which many German kings were conscripting many more men into their armies, and the people of the country and town, who were forced to pay taxes to support such new armies and to house them. Soldiers often left, whether
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In "Don Giovanni de la Fortuna", Don Giovanni is not a soldier; he squandered the fortune his father left him and met the Devil while begging. The time limit is three years, three months, and three days, and in that time, he buys a house and his fame spreads; the king asks him to lend him money, and
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Yet another version of Bearskin is "The Reward of Kindness", a story about a couple who can not have a child, so the wife promises her child to serve the devil if she could only have one. The wife then has a child and a devil takes him away and tries to tempt him into his service. The child refuses
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Bearskin sets out, donating money to the poor and asking them to pray for him to live out the seven years. After three years, Bearskin becomes so revolting that he must pay heavily to get any shelter. In the fourth year, he hears an old man lamenting and persuades him to tell his tale: the old man
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The "Devil's Breeches" is close to "Don Giovanni de la Fortuna", but while the hero also squanders his money, he attempts to support himself by working as a servant, an attempt that fails because all his masters' wives or sisters fall in love with him, and he has to leave every job. Calvino notes
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At the end of the seven years, Bearskin finds the Devil again and demands that he fulfill his promise. The Devil then proceeds to bathe Bearskin, clip his nails, cut his hair, and say the Lord's Prayer. The Devil warns Bearskin not to push his luck, as he has already won their bargain, and
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soldier. The only changes made to the story are the crying man is a farmer who has lost all of his money and will lose his farm, and the Devil tells the audience, not Bearskin, that he gets two souls for the price of one. The tale is often considered the most chilling of the
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overseas). In this version, the soldier is named Johann. His fiancé's sisters are clearly upset when they find out what they lost, but they do not actually kill themselves and the Devil (here a "minor demon") does not get
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agrees to fulfill her father's promise. Bearskin gives his fiancée one half of a ring and promises to return in three years. The maiden then dresses in black, waiting for her betrothed as her sisters mock her endlessly.
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has lost all his money and does not know how to provide for his three daughters nor pay the innkeeper, so he will be jailed. Bearskin pays the innkeeper and gives the old man a purse of gold as well.
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tales like the Swiss "The Devil as Partner", the Austrian "Hell's Gatekeeper", the Russian "Never-Wash", the Sicilian "Don Giovanni de la Fortuna", or the Philippine "The Reward of Kindness".
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under the title "Der Teufel Grünrock" (English: 'Devil Greenjacket'), and substantially revised in the 5th edition of the book. Their story is based on the version collected by the
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any of his three daughters. The oldest daughter runs away in fear. The middle one says that Bearskin is worse than an actual bear passing off as human. The
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that in his sources, the sisters were merely envious, and added their explicit wish that they would gladly be taken by the Devil because of their rage.
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and other tales of monstrous bridegrooms (or brides), but unlike most the main character is the transformed bridegroom. Some other tales, such as
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by any discharge they could get, or by deserting, and such an ex-soldier often had to make his way in the world like the hero of
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at the prospect of having Pron'ka as a brother-in-law, eloped with the American's brothers; a fact of great national pride.
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that is how the promise to marry is brought about. The sisters, though they die, are not explicitly taken by the devil.
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type 361 (Bearskin), in which a man gains a fortune and a beautiful bride by entering into a pact with the devil.
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to make the soldier rich if for seven years, he will neither cut his hair, clip his nails, bathe, nor cite the
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series. The story is set in rural Virginia after the Civil War with the protagonist being a desperate ex-
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1909 illustration by Otto Ubbelohde which depicts the Devil thanking Bearskin for his help
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family, and on the tale "Vom Ursprung des Namens Bärnhäuter", first published in 1670 by
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American composer Stephen DeCesare composed a musical based on the fairy tale:
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included another Italian version, "The Devil's Breeches" from Bologna, in his
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When they realize that Bearskin is the suitor they had rejected,
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A version of "Bearskin" appears in the Japanese animated series
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
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one sister hangs herself in a rage and the other drowns herself
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The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
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including variants, modern interpretations and illustrations
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The modern version of tale was originally published by the
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Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
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Index


Otto Ubbelohde
Aarne–Thompson
Germany
Grimm's Fairy Tales
German
fairy tale
Brothers Grimm
Laura Gonzenbach
Sicilianische Märchen
Andrew Lang
The Pink Fairy Book
Italo Calvino
Italian Folktales
Aarne–Thompson
Brothers Grimm
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
von Haxthausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
soldier
heath
man with a green coat and a horse's hoof
bear
offers
Lord's Prayer
soul
Bearskin

marry
youngest daughter

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