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"The Ass", "The Donkey", or "The Little Donkey" (German: Das Eselein) is a German fairy tale collected by Brothers Grimm compiled in the Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Tale type

"The Ass", "The Donkey" or "The Little Donkey" (Das Eselein) cataloged KHM 144 (since the second edition of the Grimms' Fairy Tales).

This tale not collected from oral recitation but was Wilhelm Grimm's reworking by of the fourteenth-century Latin tale Asinarius.

The piece is representative of the Aarne-Thompson tale type 430 "The Ass" (or "The Donkey Bridegroom"), and exhibits the motif D721.3 "Disenchantment by destroying skin (covering)".

Synopsis

Ziolkowski, Jan M. "The Beast and the Beauty: The Reorientation of "The Donkey" from the Middle Ages to the Brothers Grimm." The Journal of Medieval Latin 5 (1995): 53-94. www.jstor.org/stable/45019406.
Ziolkowski, Jan M. "The Reorientation of The Donkey Tale (ca. 1200)." In Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies, 200-30. ANN ARBOR: University of Michigan Press, 2007. www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.105158.11.

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