Der Zwingäuer, Des Mönches Not (>1300)
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Maere and Novellas
Der Zwingäuer, Des Mönches Not (>1300)
von der Hagen, H.H.: Gesammtabenteuer. Hundert altdeutsche Erzählungen, 3 vols. Stuttgart/Tübingen 1850. Reprint Darmstadt 1961. Vol 2, Nr. 24, p. 53–69
ZwMN-1:
One day a young monk, who has lived in the monastery since he was seven years old, reads in a book about love’s bond and asks an experienced abbot what this is about. The monk tells him about the joys of love and advises him to ask for a vacation to visit his relatives. He agrees, and the two of them take some travel money and set out. The experienced monk brings them into the house of a lady whose husband is on a journey. He pays the hostess to entertain the young monk for one night.
Motif References:
T 480 Prostitution and concubinage
J 1744 Ignorance of marriage (sexual) relations
ZwMN-167:
But the monk turns out to be totally unteachable, and although she tries to animate him, he lies in bed stiff as a stick. The angry woman beats him up after three tries.
Motif References:
K 1233 Lover humiliated by his impotence
ZwMN-265:
After this experience, he goes back to his monastery. He asks the experienced monk, “Who has to bear the children of love?” The experienced monk answers, “The person who is lying on their back.” As this had been the young monk, he thinks he is pregnant. He goes to a young peasant who has made a cow give birth by beating it and gets the peasant to beat him up too. Just at the moment when the third stick is broken, a rabbit hops away. The fool thinks that it’s his child and tries in vain to catch it.
Motif References:
J 2321 Man made to believe that he is pregnant (has borne child)
ZwMN-480:
An old monk finds the young monk wailing and roaming, and decides he is insane. He brings him back to the monastery by force and exorcises him. When the exorcism shows no effect, the man is imprisoned until he confesses everything to the abbot and is set free.
Motif References:
K 1265 Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him
D 2176.3 Evil spirit exorcised
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