Sweet porridge
In the family of a poor girl who lives alone with her mother, there is nothing to eat. In the woods the girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic pot, which only needs to say: “A pot, cook!”, As he himself begins to cook a wonderful sweet millet cereal in any quantities. In order to stop it, it is worth saying “Potty, full!”. Once, when the girl left the house, her mother cooked porridge, and what words should be said to stop the pot, forgot. The whole city was flooded with delicious porridge, until the daughter returned home, and did not say the right words. By that time, the pot had already welded so much that the drivers had to eat themselves in the porridge to eat the way.
Analysis and scenarios
According to the note of the Brothers Grimm, a fairy tale was written by them in Hessen from Dorothea Wild. Erasmus Franciskis has a story about feeding the poor with whom the Brothers Grimm was also familiar. In 1530, Hans Sachs published a famous
The plot of the tale is close to the ancient legend that the product of eternal food can only be managed by integrity. There is also an Indian legend about the vessel, which cooked an endless porridge from one grain of rice. Porridge or bread was the main food and was eaten in Thuringia during the carnival. so that the whole year was not lacking in anything. Lutz Rechrich notes that the mention of millet in the fairy tale is preserved, apparently, from the medieval ration of the low classes of the population. When it came to the utterance of magic formulas, everything depended on the exact, literal, utterance of the necessary words.
The motif of the tale is associated with such a widespread phenomenon as hunger. Her story is much older than the time when in Europe, cane (and, especially, beetroot) sugar is available for everyone. before the porridge was slightly sweetened with honey and fruits, their natural sweetness gave the cereal from the millet a wonderful taste. In addition, the ability to swell in the wheat even
The hope of a miracle, which one can help in some cases, was the source of stray subjects, which for a long time went to the oral tradition. The cheerful and whimsical picture of a city full of porridge was a vivid illustration of the doctrine: when someone is entrusted with miracles, you should not try to appropriate them to yourself, even if they come from a child, and you are a mother. This can lead to trouble. The fact that a simple girl owns a miracle in a fairy tale should have served to strengthen the children’s self-confidence.
A pot for cooking hot food, donated by an old woman, is interpreted in psychology as a function of the mother’s archetype. The interpretation of Friedel Lenz is based on the ancient Indian designation of the sun and moon, as two heavenly pots with porridge, which can only reach the children’s soul.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)