"The Bright Sun" is a German
fairy tale collected by the
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', originally known as the ''Children's and Household Tales'' (german: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, lead=yes, ), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first publi ...
'', tale number 115.
[Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, ''Household Tales'']
"The Bright Sun Brings it to Light"
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It is Aarne-Thompson type 960, The Sun Brings All to Light.[D. L. Ashliman,]
The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)
Synopsis
A tailor's apprentice robs and murders a Jew on the road, despite the Jew saying he has nothing worth stealing. As the Jew dies, he warns, "The bright sun will bring it to light." The man then settles down. One day, he sees the sunlight reflecting from his coffee and jeers about its bringing "it" to light. His wife bothers him until he tells her what he means. She gossips about it, and he is arrested and executed.
Variants
The Grimms also recorded a version where the threat of that birds would bring it to light, and the man laughed at a partridge because of it.
See also
*''The Jew Among Thorns ''The Jew Among Thorns'' (), also known as ''The Jew in the Brambles'', is an antisemitic fairytale collected by the Brothers Grimm (no. 110). It is a tale of Aarne–Thompson type 592 ('Dancing in Thorns'). A similar antisemitic tale in the colle ...
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*'' The Good Bargain''
References
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Antisemitism in literature
ATU 850-999
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