The Fox and the Geese

The Fox and the Geese
Folk tale
Name	The Fox and the Geese
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 227
Country	Germany
Published in	Grimms' Fairy Tales

"The Fox and the Geese" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales as tale number 86.^[1]

It is Aarne-Thompson type 227, The Geese's Eternal Prayer.^[2]

It was missing from the first printed editions of the 1812 edition. The text of the story was added to the 1815 Volume II of the KHM as Pg 387 at the end of the book as part of the corrections to the 1812 Vol I.

Synopsis

A fox tells some geese it will eat them. They get permission to pray first, and pray on and on, and the story will continue when they stop.

Context

This is the last story of the first volume. The Golden Key, the last story in the second volume, has a similar function.

References

^ Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Fox and the Geese"
^ D.L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"

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Animal tales	2 15 20C 41 52 65 68A 85 91 101 103 105 112 113A 122E 123 (The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats, The Goat and Her Three Kids) 124 130 (Town Musicians of Bremen, Jack and His Comrades) 151 155 156 171 173 178A 210 (Herr Korbes, The Pack of Ragamuffins) 210* 212 212A 236 (The Magpie's Nest, The Crumbs on the Table) 248 275
Tales of magic	300 301 301A 301B 302B 303 (The Twins, The Three Princes and their Beasts) 304 306 307 310 (Persinette, Petrosinella, Rapunzel) 311 312 313 313A (The Water Nixie, Foundling-Bird) 314 316 318 321 325 326 327 327A 327B (Molly Whuppie, Hop-o'-My-Thumb) 328 330A 331 (The Spirit in the Bottle, The Fisherman and the Jinni) 332 333 334 360 361 363 365 (Djákninn á Myrká, Lenore) 369 400 401 401A 402 403 404 (Biancabella and the Snake, The Enchanted Maiden) 405 407 408 410 (The Glass Coffin, Sleeping Beauty) 412 425 425A 425B 425C 425D 425E 425M 425N 426 430 431 432 433 433B 433C (The Story of the Hamadryad, The Origin of the Sirenia) 434* 440 (The Frog Prince, The Well of the World's End) 441 (The Pig King, Hans My Hedgehog) 442 450 451 451A 459 461 462 (The Witch in the Stone Boat, The Son of Seven Mothers) 465 (The Wife from the Dragon Palace, The Snail Bride, Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What) 475 476 480 500 501 502 503 505 507 507B 510 510A 510B 511 511A 513 513A (How Six Made Their Way in the World, The Six Servants) 514 516 (Father Roquelaure, Trusty John) 530 531 533 540 545B 550 551 552A 554 555 560 (Gyeonmyo jaengju, Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box) 561 562 (The Princess and the Tin Box, The Blue Light) 563 565 566 (Fortunatus, Little Muck) 571 575 585 650A 652 653 671 673 675 700 (Tom Thumb, Thumbling) 705A 706 706D 707 708 709 709A 710 711 712 713 714 715 720 (The Rose-Tree, The Juniper Tree) 729
Religious tales	750A 769 779 (The Star Money, The Ear of Corn) 780 812 828
Realistic tales	850 851 870 875 900 922A 934A 952 955 980B 987
Anecdotes and jokes	1281 1350 1415 1430 1451 1452 1510 1651