Afrikanische Tierfabeln

Title

en_US Afrikanische Tierfabeln

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Germany

en_US Gesammelt und illustriert von F.P.v. Zglinicki

Creator

en_US Von Zglinicki, Friedrich Pruss

Contributor

en_US Zglinicki, F.P.V.

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:52Z

en_US 1995-07

en_US 1949?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949?

Abstract

en_US There are some wonderful treasures in this book! Der Löwe und die neun Hyänen (13), for example, is a nice variation on LS. In this case, the lion and the nine hyenas caught ten cattle. The lion divided: nine hyenas and one cow make ten; that sum equals one lion and nine cows. When they think it over and object, they ask a jackal to judge the case. In the meantime, the lion eats nine cows. When the jackal learns the present situation, he tells the hyenas: at best you nine will get half of the remaining cow, and he will not be satisfied. Give him the whole cow. That is what they did! Puffotter und Pavian is the age-old fable about getting a judge -- here the jackal -- who says that he cannot understand the situation. And so the snake returns to the place where he was first disturbed under a rock, and the jackal tells the baboon to leave (17). Das überlistete Nashorn (19) is the good story of the cornered jackal cornered by the rhino whom he has offended. He makes believe he is holding up a cliff. Come, help, hold this cliff up while I find a pole to set against it! The rhino does as asked, and the jackal runs for his life! Der kranke Löwe is the age-old story of the footprints going in but not out (21). Ente und Schakal (24) has the duck teaching the jackal to pray as the white men do before eating him. That means folding one's hands and closing one's eyes. Der gefrässige Strauss (29) has an evil ostrich eating a turtle. In the ostrich's neck, the turtle stretches out and catches hold. The ostrich soon dies, and the turtle makes his way out. Schakal und Krabbe (45) has this old motif: in a race the lobster grabs onto the tail of the jackal, lets himself be carried to a point close to the end of the race. Here the jackal turns to see where the lobster might be, and the lobster can drop off and win the race. In this fine book of 128 pages, I quit at 46. There are more treasures here to enjoy!

Identifier

en_US 7320 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82591

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US A. Weichert Verlag

en_US Berlin

Subject

en_US GR350.3.Z4 1949

en_US Africa

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole