經典格林童話故事：白新娘和黑新娘

格林童話產生於十九世紀初，是由德國著名語言學家，雅可布·格林和威廉·格林兄弟收集、整理、加工完成的德國民間文學。它是世界童話的經典之作，自問世以來，在世界各地影響十分廣泛。格林兄弟以其豐富的想象、優美的語言給孩子們講述了一個個神奇而又浪漫的童話故事。下面本站小編爲大家帶來經典格林童話故事：白新娘和黑新娘，歡迎大家閱讀!

A WOMAN was going about the unenclosed land with her daughter and

her step-daughter cutting fodder, when the Lord came walking towards

them in the form of a poor man, and asked, "Which is the way into the village?"

"If you want to know," said the mother, "seek it for yourself," and the daughter

added, "If you are afraid you will not find it, take a guide with you." But the

step-daughter said, "Poor man, I will take you there, come with me." Then

God was angry with the mother and daughter, and turned his back

on them, and wished that they should become as black as night and as

ugly as sin. To the poor step-daughter, however, God was gracious,

and went with her, and when they were near the village, he said a

blessing over her, and spake, "Choose three things for thyself, and

I will grant them to thee." Then said the maiden, "I should like to be

as beautiful and fair as the sun," and instantly she was white and

fair as day. "Then I should like to have a purse of money which

would never grow empty." That the Lord gave her also, but he said,

"Do not forget what is best of all." Said she, "For my third wish, I

desire, after my death, to inhabit the eternal kingdom of Heaven."

That also was granted unto her, and then the Lord left her. When the

step-mother came home with her daughter, and they saw that

they were both as black as coal and ugly, but that the step-daughter

was white and beautiful, wickedness increased still more in their

hearts, and they thought of nothing else but how they could do her an

injury. The step-daughter, however, had a brother called Reginer,

whom she loved much, and she told him all that had happened. Once

on a time Reginer said to her, "Dear sister, I will take thy likeness,

that I may continually see thee before mine eyes, for my love for thee

is so great that I should like always to look at thee." Then she answered,

"But, I pray thee, let no one see the picture." So he painted his sister and

hung up the picture in his room; he, however, dwelt in the King's palace, for

he was his coachman. Every day he went and stood before the picture, and

thanked God for the happiness of having such a dear sister. Now it happened

that the King whom he served, had just lost his wife, who had been so

beautiful that no one could be found to compare with her, and on this account

the King was in deep grief. The attendants about the court, however, remarked

that the coachman stood daily before this beautiful picture, and they were

jealous of him, so they informed the King. Then the latter ordered the

picture to be brought to him, and when he saw that it was like his lost

wife in every respect, except that it was still more beautiful, he fell

mortally in love with it. He caused the coachman to be brought before

him, and asked whom the portrait represented? The coachman said it

was his sister, so the King resolved to take no one but her as his wife,

and gave him a carriage and horses and splendid garments of cloth of

gold, and sent him forth to fetch his chosen bride. When Reginer came

on this errand, his sister was glad, but the black maiden was jealous of her

good fortune, and grew angry above all measure, and said to her mother,

"Of what use are all your arts to us now when you cannot procure such a

piece of luck for me?" "Be quiet," said the old woman, "I will soon divert

it to you," and by her arts of witchcraft, she so troubled the eyes of the

coachman that he was half-blind, and she stopped the ears of the white maiden

so that she was half-deaf. Then they got into the carriage, first the bride in

her noble royal apparel, then the step-mother with her daughter, and

Reginer sat on the box to drive. When they had been on the way for

some time the coachman cried,

"Cover thee well, my sister dear,

That the rain may not wet thee,

That the wind may not load thee with dust,

That thou may'st be fair and beautiful

When thou appearest before the King."

The bride asked, "What is my dear brother saying?" "Ah," said the old

woman, "he says that you ought to take off your golden dress and give

it to your sister." Then she took it off, and put it on the black

maiden, who gave her in exchange for it a shabby grey gown. They

drove onwards, and a short time afterwards, the brother again cried,

"Cover thee well, my sister dear,

That the rain may not wet thee,

That the wind may not load thee with dust,

That thou may'st be fair and beautiful

When thou appearest before the King."

The bride asked, "What is my dear brother saying?" "Ah," said the old

woman, "he says that you ought to take off your golden hood and give

it to your sister." So she took off the hood and put it on her sister, and

sat with her own head uncovered. And they drove on farther. After a

while, the brother once more cried,

"Cover thee well, my sister dear,

That the rain may not wet thee,

That the wind may not load thee with dust,

That thou may'st be fair and beautiful

When thou appearest before the King."

The bride asked, "What is my dear brother saying?" "Ah," said the old

woman, "he says you must look out of the carriage." They were, however,

just on a bridge, which crossed deep water. When the bride stood up and

leant forward out of the carriage, they both pushed her out, and she fell into

the middle of the water. At the same moment that she sank, a snow-white

duck arose out of the mirror-smooth water, and swam down the river.

The brother had observed nothing of it, and drove the carriage on

until they reached the court. Then he took the black maiden to the

King as his sister, and thought she really was so, because his eyes

were dim, and he saw the golden garments glittering. When the King

saw the boundless ugliness of his intended bride, he was very angry,

and ordered the coachman to be thrown into a pit which was full of

adders and nests of snakes. The old witch, however, knew so well how

to flatter the King and deceive his eyes by her arts, that he kept her and

her daughter until she appeared quite endurable to him, and he really

married her.

One evening when the black bride was sitting on the King's knee, a

white duck came swimming up the gutter to the kitchen, and said to

the kitchen-boy, "Boy, light a fire, that I may warm my feathers."

The kitchen-boy did it, and lighted a fire on the hearth. Then came

the duck and sat down by it, and shook herself and smoothed her

feathers to rights with her bill. While she was thus sitting and

enjoying herself, she asked, "What is my brother Reginer doing?" The

scullery-boy replied, "He is imprisoned in the pit with adders and

with snakes." Then she asked, "What is the black witch doing in the

house?" The boy answered, "She is loved by the King and happy."

"May God have mercy on him," said the duck, and swam forth by the sink.

The next night she came again and put the same questions, and the

third night also. Then the kitchen-boy could bear it no longer, and

went to the King and discovered all to him. The King, however, wanted

to see it for himself, and next evening went thither, and when the

duck thrust her head in through the sink, he took his sword and cut

through her neck, and suddenly she changed into a most beautiful

maiden, exactly like the picture, which her brother had made of her.

The King was full of joy, and as she stood there quite wet, he caused

splendid apparel to be brought and had her clothed in it. Then she told

how she had been betrayed by cunning and falsehood, and at last thrown

down into the water, and her first request was that her brother should

be brought forth from the pit of snakes, and when the King had fulfilled

this request, he went into the chamber where the old witch was, and asked,

What does she deserve who does this and that? and related what had happened.

Then was she so blinded that she was aware of nothing and said, "She deserves

to be stripped naked, and put into a barrel with nails, and that a horse should

be harnessed to the barrel, and the horse sent all over the world." All of which

was done to her, and to her black daughter. But the King married the white

and beautiful bride, and rewarded her faithful brother, and made him a rich and

distinguished man.

　結束語：

格林童話帶有濃厚的地域特色、民族特色，富於趣味性和娛樂性，對培養兒童養成真、善、美的良好品質有積極意義。這些內容豐富又飽含趣味性的童話故事擴展了兒童的思維世界，在輕鬆愉說的閱讀中總結經驗教訓，喚起兒童對生活的熱愛與期待，激發兒童善惡觀的形成。以上的格林童話故事希望大家能夠喜歡。