The Pack of Ragamuffins

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The Pack of Ragamuffins
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Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler
Folk tale
NameThe Pack of Ragamuffins
Also known asDas Lumpengesindel, 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, The Pack of Scoundrels
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 210 (The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man)
CountryGermany
Published in Grimms' Fairy Tales

"The Pack of Ragamuffins" (German : Das Lumpengesindel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 10. [1] 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", "The Pack of Scoundrels", "The Good-For-Nothings", [2] and possibly others. [3]

It is Aarne-Thompson type 210, The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man. [4] Another tale of this type is the Grimms' "Herr Korbes". [3] The Grimms also compared it to "The Town Musicians of Bremen". [1]

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Pack of Ragamuffins"
  2. ↑ Gág, Wanda (1947). More Tales From Grimm (6th ed.). New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. p. 77.
  3. 1 2 D. L. Ashliman, The Pack of Scoundrels
  4. ↑ D. L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"
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