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Vom Fischer und seiner Frau

The Fisherman and His Wife

1Der ButtThe flounderFree5m
2Das SchlossThe castle5m
3KönigKing4m
4KaiserEmperor5m
5Wie der liebe GottLike God5m

A poor fisherman who lives with his wife in an old pot by the sea catches a flounder that says it is an enchanted prince, and lets it swim free. His wife, Ilsebill, sends him back to wish for a hut, then a stone castle, then to be king, emperor and pope; every time the man goes unwillingly, calls the flounder with his rhyme, and finds the sea darker and wilder. When she wants to be like God and make the sun and moon rise, the flounder sends him home in a terrible storm: she sits in the old pot again, and there they sit to this day.

Retold from Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1, 7. Auflage (Ausgabe letzter Hand, 1857), KHM 19 by Brüder Grimm (public domain).

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