546. Der Schwarze See bei Groß-Tessin.

ATU-Erzähltypen

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The complete local belief is about a lake-bound enchanted princess, appearing golden objects, and a narrowly specified release rule. Actual ATU retrieval (including 307, 530, 326, and the full-plot search) produced no type whose defining sequence matches these facts. ATU 307 requires a dead girl in a coffin, night watches, swallowing guards, and release by an intervention; none appears in this observation. ATU 530 requires the glass-mountain contest and three-part horse quest, wholly absent. I reviewed those full definitions and rejected them on required plot conditions, rather than treating shared princess/disenchantment vocabulary as type evidence. The episode is source-scoped to this text and not a full folktale sequence. The episode is a single failed rescue attempt, but the returned ATU candidates do not fit the defining plot. ATU 285B* concerns a sleeping person who unknowingly hosts a snake in the body and becomes ill; here the shepherd is awake during the ordeal and the snake enters his mouth at the climax. ATU 307’s coffin-watch sequence is absent. Similarity of a snake or enchanted princess alone does not establish either type.

Thompson-Motive

Assignments follow the cited observation-specific findings and full inspected definitions.

• Thompson D791 · Disenchantment possible under unique conditions.

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  Thompson D791 says disenchantment is possible under unique conditions and specifies that only one combination of time, place, and person will serve. The source gives precisely a bounded time (every St John’s night), place (this lake), person (an immaculate youth), and an explicit silence condition. This is an individual supernatural rule/condition, not a whole-tale type. The exact child D791.2.2 (wife) is not met; no wife performs the disenchantment. D791.3 is reserved for the actual failed attempt in observation o2.

  • „In diesem See befindet sich nicht blos eine goldene Wiege, ein goldenes Bett, ein goldener Sarg, welche alle drei in mondhellen Nächten zuweilen auf der Oberfläche des Wassers erscheinen, sondern es ist in der Tiefe des Sees auch eine verzauberte Prinzessin verborgen“
  • „welch' letztere in jeder Johannisnacht von einem makellosen Jüngling erlöst werden kann, vorausgesetzt, daß derselbe Alles, was in gedachter Nacht ihm“

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• Thompson D791.3 · Disenchantment fails because conditions are not fulfilled.

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  The source explicitly presents the attempt as a disenchantment trial governed by the silence condition; the shepherd fails that condition by shouting, and the princess and her splendour disappear immediately. Thompson D791.3 is “Disenchantment fails because conditions are not fulfilled.” The exact events satisfy this definition. The candidate D791.2.2 is wife-specific and does not fit; B511.1.1 requires the snake to heal the man, which does not happen; B765.5 is the opposite direction (snake crawls from a sleeper’s mouth), also inapplicable.

  • „Auch hatte er bereits verschiedene Proben lautlos überstanden und schon saß die Prinzessin auf seinem Schoße, als plötzlich eine Schlange ihm in den Mund hineinkroch.“
  • „Dieser letzten Versuchung nicht gewachsen, schreit der Schäfer laut auf und mit dem Schrei ist auch die Prinzessin sammt all ihrem Glanz und Glück verschwunden.“

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