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ATU-Erzähltypen

Keine belegbare Zuordnung in der geprüften Auswahl.

ATU 766 is a long magic sleep followed by awakening. Here the mother’s children are dead when she returns to wake them; the narrative says they do not wake and calls it eternal sleep, with no resurrection or awakening (exact 1052). Thompson searches 1012, 1033, 1038, 1105–1108 and 1174 checked prayer, seven children dying overnight, tomb, lullaby and magic-sleep candidates. No sleep-inducing action or living sleepers are described; 'eternal sleep' is the gravestone image. No supported ATU or Thompson match.

Thompson-Motive

V316 is possible: the mother asks God to take the children back and discovers their deaths the next morning, but the text does not explicitly say the prayer caused their deaths. ATU 766 requires the characteristic long magic sleep and awakening; these children are dead and never awaken. Sleep-induction candidates are also absent; “eternal sleep” is the tomb description.

• Thompson V316 · Efficacy of prayer.

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  Textbelege und Katalog

  V316 is “Efficacy of prayer.” The mother asks God to take the children back, and the next morning they are dead. The sequence plausibly presents the prayer as fulfilled, but no explicit causal statement resolves the relation, so possible.

  • „bat es Gott den Herrn, die ihm geschenkten minder zurückznnehmen“
  • „Kaum mar die Nacht vorüber, da brachten barmherzige Nachbarn Kleidungsstücke, Holz und Brod. Glücklich lies die Mutter zu ihren Kindern, nur sie zu wecken z allein sie wachten nickt mehr ans“

  Thompson V316 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab