Nr. 314. Die Schlucht Schwarzbach.

ATU-Erzähltypen

Keine belegbare Zuordnung in der geprüften Auswahl.

This is one compact local legend about stone impressions and a general devil attribution; the narrator says the exact connection is unknown, which leaves the story detail unresolved but does not indicate several independent narratives. The actual ATU searches for devil, stone, and footprint patterns yielded no complete type matching the reported account. In Thompson, A972 is retained: its full entry describes rock indentations from prints left by a person or beast, and this source says the stones show the footprints of a deer and its pursuing wolf. A972.2/A972.2.2 would require supernatural prints, specifically the devil’s footprint for the latter; the text does not identify those animal tracks as the devil’s own. A977.3 requires the devil to drop stones, and A977.4 requires him to transform an object or animal into stone; neither act is narrated.

Thompson-Motive

A972 is defined broadly as rock indentations from prints left by a person or beast. The people are said to perceive deer and pursuing-wolf footprints on the flat stones, directly matching that physical motif. The separate sentence attributing devil activity does not identify these animal prints as the devil’s footprint, so I do not extend the parent match to A972.2.2. Broader and narrow candidates were checked independently: A972 fits the named animal footprints; the devil-footprint child and the separate devil-drop/stone-transformation definitions do not.

• Thompson A972 · Indentions on rocks from prints left by man (beast).

  Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  A972 is defined broadly as rock indentations from prints left by a person or beast. The people are said to perceive deer and pursuing-wolf footprints on the flat stones, directly matching that physical motif. The separate sentence attributing devil activity does not identify these animal prints as the devil’s footprint, so I do not extend the parent match to A972.2.2.

  • „mehrere große, platte Steine, auf welchem das Volk ganz deutlichdie Fußspuren eines Hirsches und einesdenselben verfolgenden Wolfes wahrnimmt.“

  Thompson A972 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab