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The Pack of Ragamuffins

German fairy tale

Summary

German fairy tale

Field	Value
Folk_Tale_Name	The Pack of Ragamuffins
Image_Name	File:Heinrich Vogeler - Illustration Das Lumpengesindel.jpg
Image_Caption	Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler
Aarne-Thompson Grouping	ATU 210 (The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man)
AKA	Das Lumpengesindel, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet: How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, The Pack of Ragamuffins, The Vulgar Crew, A Pack of No-goods, Riffraff, The Pack of Scoundrels
Country	Germany
Published_In	Grimms' Fairy Tales

|Aarne-Thompson Grouping = ATU 210 (The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man)

"The Pack of Ragamuffins" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 10. The title has been variously translated into English, as in "The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet: How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts", "The Pack of Ragamuffins", "The Vulgar Crew", "A Pack of No-goods", "Riffraff", "The Pack of Scoundrels", "The Good-For-Nothings", and possibly others.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 210, The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man. Another tale of this type is the Grimms' "Herr Korbes". The Grimms also compared it to "The Town Musicians of Bremen".

Synopsis

A rooster and hen go to eat nuts. They make a carriage of nutshells to come back in; the hen rides and the rooster draws it. The duck attacks them for eating nuts, but the rooster defeats him, and he lets himself be harnessed to the carriage instead. A pin and needle join them. They offer an innkeeper the hen's egg and the duck to let them stay, but in the morning, they eat the hen's egg, stick the needle in the innkeeper's chair and the pin in his towel. The duck also goes off. The innkeeper is pricked by both the needle and pin and the eggshell from the hen flies at his eyes. He resolves to never have such ragamuffins in his inn again.

References

Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, ''Household Tales'', [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/10ragamuffins.html "The Pack of Ragamuffins"]
(1947). "More Tales From Grimm". Coward-McCann, Inc.
[[D. L. Ashliman]], ''[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm010.html The Pack of Scoundrels]''
[[D. L. Ashliman]], "[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"]

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