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The Devil then proceeds to bathe Bearskin, clip his nails, cut his hair, and say the Lord's Prayer. The Devil warns Bearskin not to push his luck, as he has already won their bargain, and disappears. Clean and rich, Bearskin dresses himself as a fine gentleman and goes to the old man's house, where the older sisters serve him, but his bride ...
The war has ended and soldier Christoffel has no future and no money. He does not know what to do, because he meets the devil. He offers him a deal: Christoffel's pockets will always be full of money, but he cannot wash himself for seven years, not the hair and nails and he can sleep in a bed.
The devil (basso buffo) Farmer, farm women, soldiers (Muffle's companies), mermaids, a flock of little devils, children Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde of the fairy tale "Bearskin" (1909) Cover page in Paul Pretzsch's chapter on the opera Der Bärenhäuter , 1919, p. 72
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Bearskin (French: Peau d'Ourse) is a French literary fairy tale by Marie-Madeleine de Lubert. It was included in her revised edition, published in 1753, ...
"The Devil and his Grandmother" or "The Dragon and His Grandmother" (German: Der Teufel und seine Großmutter) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 125. According to Jack Zipes, the source of the story was Dorothea Viehmann , the wife of a tailor from Hesse .
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The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812, and slightly modified in the second edition issued in 1819. Their sources were the Hassenpflug family from Hanau, supplemented by Ludowine Haxthausen and by Wilhelm Grimm's friend and future wife, Dorothea Wild.