The lives of Geese

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland today for thousands of farmers worry about lead that flock of geese can be a carefree life - day after day, year after year.

The Tale of the Golden Goose

The golden goose is a famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, which contains a certain moral for the readers. This morality is explained in more detail at the end. In the fairy tale is about three boys, one of which is Dümmling and despised by the family and the other two boys.

The father of the boys sent to collect one of you into the forest to timber (hacking). When food is given a cake and a good wine. On the way to chop wood makes this a little gray man. This gray man asks the boy, leave him some of his food, but the boy denied. The accident was not long in coming, and so the boy injured in the wood chop through the magic of the gray male. The next day the father sends the second boy in the woods, also with a cake and a good wine. This also applies to the little gray man, and again demanded that a part of provisioning. But the second boy also denied the request. It comes as it has to come and the boy is injured also chop the wood. On the third day sends the father off the Dümmling, but this does not get how the other boys, good cake and wine, but must deal with an ash cake and sour beer on the go away. But even this will stop the little gray man, and again asks for this part of the food. But the consents Dümmling one is a part of his food. When you turn the food in the little gray man cake and wine. Furthermore, the male shows the Dümmling a good tree. Under the tree he finds a golden goose. With this full of Dümmling goes into a guest house.

There, some people try to steal one of the goose feather. As punishment, they remain stuck to the goose, and all who handle the already sticky people remain stuck on this also. At some point, does the princess this chain of people on the golden goose. As this daughter never laughs, the King has passed a law that he who makes her laugh, she must marry well. Amused by this spectacle, the daughter begins to laugh and wants to marry this Dümmling. But the king wants his daughter to not lose the Dümmling and he makes some impossible conditions. The Dümmling receives help from the gray man's back so he can meet all the conditions and marry the daughter. The king dies and eventually the Dümmling inherit the entire kingdom. The moral of the story "The Golden Goose" is multiply interpretable. Firstly, can the moral here "Luck is with the stupid" install. Second, the story should teach but also that the good-hearted people are rewarded for their good nature. People have already achieved everything and yet are too arrogant to give up some of your assets will be punished by life.