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"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (german: "Der Zauberlehrling", link=no, italic=no) is a poem by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...
written in 1797. The poem is a
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in 14
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s.


Story

The poem begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving his apprentice with chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the apprentice enchants a
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to do the work for him, using
magic Magic or Magick most commonly refers to: * Magic (supernatural), beliefs and actions employed to influence supernatural beings and forces * Ceremonial magic, encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic * Magical thinking, the belief that unrela ...
in which he is not fully trained. The floor is soon awash with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom because he does not know the magic required to do so. The apprentice splits the broom in two with an axe, but each of the pieces becomes a whole broom that takes up a pail and continues fetching water, now at twice the speed. At this increased pace, the entire room quickly begins to flood. When all seems lost, the old sorcerer returns and quickly breaks the spell. The poem concludes with the old sorcerer's statement that only a master should invoke powerful spirits.


German culture

Goethe's is well known in the German-speaking world. The lines in which the apprentice implores the returning sorcerer to help him with the mess he created have turned into a
cliché A cliché ( or ) is an element of an artistic work, saying, or idea that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being weird or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was consi ...
, especially the line "Die Geister, die ich rief" ("The spirits that I summoned"), a simplified version of one of Goethe's lines "Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd' ich nun nicht los" - "The spirits that I summoned / I now cannot rid myself of again", which is often used to describe someone who summons help or allies that the individual cannot control, especially in politics.


Analysis

The story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is classified in the
Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies. The ATU Index is the product of a series of revisions and expansions by an international group of scholars: originally composed in German by ...
as ATU 325 (The Magician and his Pupil) or ATU 325* (The Apprentice and the Ghosts). The tale assumes two formats, mostly: *The first type: a father sells his son to a sorcerer-type character (magician, warlock, wizard). The boy learns to shapeshift, escapes the magician's workshop and returns to his father. They both concoct a plan to earn money and scam people: the man shall sell the boy in equine form. The magician notices the trick and buys the horse-boy. What follows is a shape-shifting duel between magician and apprentice, and the apprentice wins by shapeshifting into a fox and eating the magician in rooster shape. *The second type: the father is absent from the story. The boy apprentices himself to the sorcerer, learns his tricks and escapes. With the help of a princess, the apprentice defeats the magician in a shapeshifiting duel. Folklorist
Stith Thompson Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist". He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the ...
suggested an Asian origin for the tale, supposedly India. He also remarked on the popularity of the tale, which has spread throughout Asia and Europe, to Africa and the Americas. Hasan M. El-Shamy stated that an old form of the tale type appears in the ''
Tale of Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire The "Tale of Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire" (also known as ''Setne II'') is a Demotic Egyptian story attested on papyrus in Roman Egypt. Some argue that it is an answer to the biblical account about Sheba testing Solomon with hard "questions" in 1 King ...
'', as the episode of a confrontation between two sorcerers. Further studies indicate that the motif of the "transformation combat" between two sorcerous characters shows great antiquity.


Similar stories

Some versions of the tale differ from Goethe's, and in some versions the sorcerer is angry at the apprentice and in some even expels the apprentice for causing the mess. In other versions, the sorcerer is a bit amused at the apprentice and he simply chides his apprentice about the need to be able to properly control such magic once summoned. The sorcerer's anger with the apprentice, which appears in both the Greek ''Philopseudes'' and the film ''
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'', does not appear in Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling".


''Philopseudes''

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Lover of Lies ''The Lover of Lies'', also known as ''The Doubter'' or ''Philopseudes'' ( el, Φιλοψευδὴς ἢ Ἀπιστῶν), is a frame story written by the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata. It is written in the Attic dialect of ancient Greek. It ...
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, written c. AD 150. The narrator, Tychiades, is visiting the house of a sick and elderly friend, Eucrates, where he has an argument about the reality of the
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. Eucrates and several other visitors tell various tales, intended to convince him that supernatural phenomena are real. Each story in turn is either rebutted or ridiculed by Tychiades. Eucrates recounts a tale extremely similar to Goethe's "Zauberlehrling", which had supposedly happened to him in his youth. It is, indeed, the oldest known variation of this tale type. There are several differences: * The sorcerer is, instead, an Egyptian mystic – a
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of
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called Pancrates. * Eucrates is not an apprentice, but a companion who eavesdrops on Pancrates casting his spell. * Although a broom is listed as one of the items that can be animated by the spell, Eucrates actually uses a
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. (Pancrates also sometimes used the bar of a door.)


Other related stories

Similar themes (such as the power of magic or technology turning against the insufficiently wise person invoking it) are found in many traditions and works of art. Comparative mythologist
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argues for a parallel between the Brythonic legend of
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and a Russian fairy tale, ''Le savoir magique'', collected by
Alexander Afanasyev Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Afanasief, Afanasiev or Afanas'ev, russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) ( — ) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk ta ...
with both stories being classified as ATU 325. As referenced by
Joseph Jacobs Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore. Jacob ...
in his ''English Fairy Tales'', Joseph Tunison (1849–1916) analysed several apocryphal medieval tales of Roman poet
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, including one where Virgil summons and banishes an evil entity. Scholarship acknowledges the popularity of the tale type in Yiddish folklore. 17th-century French author Eustace le Noble also wrote a literary variant of the tale type with ''L'apprenti magicien''.


In mythology

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in Chakravyuha in the ''
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'' * The Sañjīva
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story about the boastful pupil who is killed by the tiger he brought to life with a spell, without yet being taught the counter-spell by his teacher.


In folk and fairy tales

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Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in '' The Facetious Nights of Straparola''. This tale plays off a long tradition of conflict between apprentices and their maste ...
" * " The Master and his Pupil" * "
The Thief and His Master "The Thief and His Master" is a German fairy tale (original title: "De Gaudeif un sien Meester") collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' as tale number 68. In the first edition (published on 20 December 1812) there was another f ...
" * "
Sweet Porridge "Sweet Porridge" (german: Der süße Brei), often known in English under the title of "The Magic Porridge Pot", is a folkloric German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm, as tale number 103 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'', in the 19th century. ...
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The Magic Book The Magic Book is a Danish fairy tale collected by Ewald Tang Kristensen in '' Eventyr fra Jylland''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Orange Fairy Book'', listing it as translated by Mrs. Skavgaard-Pedersen. Synopsis A boy called set out to seek ...
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Farmer Weathersky Farmer Weathersky ( no, Bonde Værskjegg) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book'' as "Farmer Weatherbeard". It is Aarne–Thomps ...
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Krabat Krabat () is a character in Sorbian folklore, also dubbed the " Wendish Faust". First records of him were mentioned in 1839 minutes of the Akademischen Vereins für lausitzische Geschichte und Sprache, but all writings of the association were ...


In literature

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'' popularized the story from Goethe's poem, and the 1897
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symphonic poem based on it, in one of eight animated
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plays the apprentice, and the story follows Goethe's original closely, except that the sorcerer (
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, or ''Disney'' backwards) is stern and angry with his apprentice when he saves him. ''Fantasia'' popularized Goethe's story to a worldwide audience. The segment proved so popular that it was repeated, in its original form, in the sequel ''
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''. Literary adaptations of the tale include several fiction and nonfiction books, including the novel ''
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'' (1910) by
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's novel ''
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'' (1995) based on the TV series ''
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''. Nonfiction books with this title include ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Journey Through Africa'' (1948) by
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, and the travel book '' Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (1998) by
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'' (1848), comparing modern bourgeois society to "the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells." "
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of a kindly magician. The poem's story is alluded to in several episodes of the fairy-tale drama ''
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. The film ''
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'' (2010) features a scene based on Goethe's poem (and the ''Fantasia'' version). "Top Secret Apprentice", a segment of the ''
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'' episode broadcast on February 1, 1991, is a modern version of the story, with Buster Bunny messing around with
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's cartoon scenery machine and getting into trouble. The ''Fantasia'' version appears in the video game series ''
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'' (2002), with the sorcerer
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serving as an adviser to the heroes, teaching
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playing card Sorcerer's Broom from Throne of Eldraine references the story and the replicating nature of the broom.


See also

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Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome (SAS) is a network protocol flaw in the original versions of TFTP. It was named after Goethe's 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling" (popularized by the " Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of the 1940 animated film ''Fantasia ...
*
Sweet Porridge "Sweet Porridge" (german: Der süße Brei), often known in English under the title of "The Magic Porridge Pot", is a folkloric German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm, as tale number 103 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'', in the 19th century. ...
* The Master and his Pupil


References


Further reading

* * * Cosquin, Emmanuel.
Les Mongols et leur prétendu rôle dans la transmission des contes indiens vers l'Occident européen: étude de folk-lore comparé sur l'introduction du "Siddhikûr" et le conte du "Magicien et son apprenti"
'. Imprimerie nouvelle G. Clouzot, 1913. * * * *


External links

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Volume 3 of Fowler's translations of Lucian
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Modern English translation from 2013
by Katrin Gygax
The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia
(first part) an
second part
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