517. Die Glocken von Lähnwitz.

ATU-Erzähltypen

Keine belegbare Zuordnung in der geprüften Auswahl.

No proposed whole-plot ATU instance. The two whole-plot searches yield no definition matching the submerged bells’ annual St John appearance, cloth-binding episode, return to the lake, and later absence after drainage. ATU 1511* (“Advice of the Bells”) was fully read because it appeared in a query result: it requires a woman/widow considering marriage to her farmhand who interprets the bells’ advice, later regrets the marriage, and related variants about a young man and difficult wife. None of those defining marriage/advice conditions occurs here. Other returned entries (e.g. 1786, a clergyman riding an ox in church; 1325B, moving a church away from dung) likewise do not match. The separate wartime sinking report is not treated as an authorized separate tale episode.

Thompson-Motive

Proposed Thompson V115.1 for the source’s reported belief that church bells from a destroyed church entered the nearby lake and surface annually on St John’s Day. The exact definition is “Church bell sunk in river (sea),” with V115 as its parent; the source describes church bells submerged in a lake and recurring emergence. The fact is marked reported-belief and is not treated as independently verified history. No additional Thompson assignment proposed for the cloth episode. The text says the children’s bread cloths bind the bells, which hum at one and return to the lake when the cloths are removed. D1654.10 (“Bell refuses to be moved”) does not fit the stated cause: the bells are bound by the cloths and then move back into the lake; the passage does not say the bell resists movement. V115.4 (“What church bells say”) is not supported because the bells hum rather than speak intelligible words. The episode remains within the story’s broader sunken-bell motif already recorded at o1. No Thompson assignment proposed for the reported follow-up. The text reports that draining the lake yielded no bells and separately records a field name, Kapell-Acker, plus an alternative claim that residents sank the bells during a war. A1617 (“Origin of place-name”) is not assigned because the source states that the field still bears the name but does not narrate how the name originated. The wartime account is explicitly an alternate source statement and does not cancel the other account.

• Thompson V115.1 · Church bell sunk in river (sea).

  Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  The full motif is “Church bell sunk in river (sea),” with the broader parent “Church bells.” The source explicitly reports submerged church bells in a lake and their periodic reappearance; certainty is probable because this is transmitted belief.

  • „Bei der Zerstörung derselben kamen die Glocken in den nahe gelegenen See.“
  • „Alle Jahre am Johannistage Mittags 12 Uhr tauchen sie aus dem See auf und bleiben bis 1 Uhr am Ufer.“

  Thompson V115.1 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab