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Grimm's Household Tales


 
A Riddling Tale.

Three women were transformed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband, if you will come this afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and henceforth stay with you. And he did so. Now the question is, how did her husband know her, for the flowers were exactly alike, and without any difference. Answer - as she was at her home during the night and not in the field, no dew fell on her as it did on the others, and by this her husband knew her.

Rätselmärchen

Drei Frauen waren verwandelt in Blumen, die auf dem Felde standen, doch deren eine durfte des Nachts in ihrem Hause sein. Da sprach sie auf eine Zeit zu ihrem Mann, als sich der Tag nahete und sie wiederum zu ihren Gespielen auf das Feld gehen und eine Blume werden mußte, 'so du heute vormittag kommst und mich abbrichst, werde ich erlöst und fürder bei dir bleiben;' als dann auch geschah. Nun ist die Frage, wie sie ihr Mann erkannt habe, so die Blumen ganz gleich und ohne Unterschied waren. Antwort: 'dieweil sie die Nacht in ihrem Haus und nicht auf dem Feld war, fiel der Tau nicht auf sie als auf die andern zwei, dabei sie der Mann erkannte.'



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