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The Three Spinners
"The Three Spinners" (also "The Three Spinning Women"; German: Die drei Spinnerinnen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 14). It is Aarne–Thompson type 501, which is widespread throughout Europe.
It has obvious parallels to Rumpelstiltskin and Frau Holle, and obvious differences, so that they are often compared.
Giambattista Basile includes an Italian literary fairy tale, "The Seven Little Pork Rinds", in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.
Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales includes a variant, And Seven!.
The first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales contained a much shorter variant, "Hateful Flax Spinning", but it is "The Three Spinners" that became well known.
The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1819. Their principal source was Paul Wigand (1786–1866), completed by the versions of Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860) and Johannes Prätorius (1630–1680). The first edition (1812) contained a shorter variant titled "Hateful Flax Spinning" (Von dem bösen Flachsspinnen), based on Jeanette Hassenpflug's account.
Once there was a beautiful-but-lazy girl who refused to spin. While her mother is beating her for her laziness, the Queen, happening to pass by, witnesses her punishment and asks the reason for it. Ashamed to admit her daughters laziness, the woman replies that her daughter spins so much that she cannot afford to buy enough flax to keep her occupied. The Queen, impressed by such industry, offers to take the girl with her.
Once at the castle, the queen takes the girl to a room filled with flax. If she spins it all within three days, she will be married to the queen's oldest son. Two days later, the queen returns and is amazed to find the flax untouched. The girl explains that homesickness has kept her from spinning, but she realizes that excuse will not serve her twice.
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The Three Spinners
"The Three Spinners" (also "The Three Spinning Women"; German: Die drei Spinnerinnen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 14). It is Aarne–Thompson type 501, which is widespread throughout Europe.
It has obvious parallels to Rumpelstiltskin and Frau Holle, and obvious differences, so that they are often compared.
Giambattista Basile includes an Italian literary fairy tale, "The Seven Little Pork Rinds", in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone.
Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales includes a variant, And Seven!.
The first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales contained a much shorter variant, "Hateful Flax Spinning", but it is "The Three Spinners" that became well known.
The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1819. Their principal source was Paul Wigand (1786–1866), completed by the versions of Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860) and Johannes Prätorius (1630–1680). The first edition (1812) contained a shorter variant titled "Hateful Flax Spinning" (Von dem bösen Flachsspinnen), based on Jeanette Hassenpflug's account.
Once there was a beautiful-but-lazy girl who refused to spin. While her mother is beating her for her laziness, the Queen, happening to pass by, witnesses her punishment and asks the reason for it. Ashamed to admit her daughters laziness, the woman replies that her daughter spins so much that she cannot afford to buy enough flax to keep her occupied. The Queen, impressed by such industry, offers to take the girl with her.
Once at the castle, the queen takes the girl to a room filled with flax. If she spins it all within three days, she will be married to the queen's oldest son. Two days later, the queen returns and is amazed to find the flax untouched. The girl explains that homesickness has kept her from spinning, but she realizes that excuse will not serve her twice.