"The Pack of Ragamuffins" (german: Das Lumpengesindel) is a German

fairy tale A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical ...

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 ...

, number 10.Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, ''Household Tales''
"The Pack of Ragamuffins"
/ref> The title has been variously translated into English, as in "The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet: How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts", "The Pack of Ragamuffins", "The Vulgar Crew", "A Pack of No-goods", "Riffraff", and "The Pack of Scoundrels".

D. L. Ashliman Dee L. Ashliman (born January 1, 1938), who writes professionally as D. L. Ashliman, is an American folklorist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Pittsburgh and is considered to be a leading expert on folklore an ...

,
The Pack of Scoundrels
' It is Aarne-Thompson type 210, The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man.

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The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"
/ref> Another tale of this type is the Grimms' "

Herr Korbes "Herr Korbes" (German; Translation: Mr. Korbes) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 41.Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, ''Household Tales''"Herr Korbes"/ref> They found it in both the district of the Main (from Jeanette Hassenp ...

". The Grimms also compared it to " The Town Musicians of Bremen".

Synopsis

A rooster and hen go to eat nuts. They make a carriage of nutshells to come back in; the hen rides and the rooster draws it. The duck attacks them for eating nuts, but the rooster defeats him, and he lets himself be harnessed to the carriage instead. A pin and needle join them. They offer an innkeeper the hen's egg and the duck to let them stay, but in the morning, they eat the hen's egg, stick the needle in the innkeeper's chair and the pin in his towel. The duck also goes off. The innkeeper is pricked by both the needle and pin and the eggshell from the hen flies at his eyes. He resolves to never have such ragamuffins in his inn again.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pack of Ragamuffins, The Pack of Ragamuffins ATU 200-219