The Bright Sun Brings It to Light

"The Bright Sun Brings It to Light" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales, tale number 115.[1]

It is Aarne-Thompson type 960, The Sun Brings All to Light.[2]

Synopsis

A tailor's apprentice robs and murders a Jew on the road, despite the Jew warning him that "The bright sun will bring it to light." He then settles down. One day, he sees the sunlight reflecting from his coffee and jeers about its bringing "it" to light. His wife bothers him until he tells her what he means. She gossips about it, and he is arrested and executed.

Variants

The Grimms also recorded a version where the threat of that birds would bring it to light, and the man laughed at a partridge because of it.[1]

See also

References
  1. Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Bright Sun Brings it to Light"
  2. D. L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"
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