The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack

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"The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack" is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm about three magical objects that reward virtue and punish deceit.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German folktale
fairy tale
literary fairy tale
author Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED
centralTheme family relationships
justice
punishment of deceit
retribution
reward of virtue
collector Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED
containsMotif comeuppance of a trickster
journey of sons
magical gifts lost and regained
magical object
trickery
countryOfOrigin Germany
featuresObject cudgel in the sack
gold-ass NERFINISHED
wishing table
genre folk narrative
hasAlternativeTitle The Little Table, Set Yourself, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack NERFINISHED
The Wishing Table NERFINISHED
hasCharacterType craftsman
father
innkeeper
three sons
hasCulturalOrigin German oral tradition
hasForm prose narrative
hasMagicSystemElement animal that produces gold
cudgel that beats wrongdoers
self-setting table
hasNarrativeVoice third-person narrator
hasTitleInGerman Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack NERFINISHED
includedInCollection Grimms' Fairy Tales NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod 19th century
moralLesson dishonesty leads to punishment
greed has consequences
hard work and skill are rewarded
narrativeStructure three brothers tale
originalLanguage German
targetAudience children
general readers

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Brothers Grimm fairy tales includesWork The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack