791. Das Knäblein von Speier
791. Das Knäblein von Speier, in: Alexander Schöppner: Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande. München: M. Rieger, 1852–1853, Band 2 (1852), Abschnitt 791. Das Knäblein von Speier, 1852
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Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Gesamte Erzählung
ATU 767 is “Food for the Crucifix”: a pious boy offers bread to an image of Christ or the Virgin and is rewarded by entertainment in heaven. The boy gives his bread in response to the image’s need, the Christ Child descends and carries him, and the boy eats the bread of life in heaven before dying. This is the characteristic whole-story sequence, despite the source’s Marian image rather than a crucifix.