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But neither the king nor his daughter knew who the stranger really was, whether he was a tailor or a prince. At that time, they did not know. If they have not found out since then, they still do not know today. That is one of the fairy tales we want to look at in principle. But before we go into that, let us look at another one. For if you pick up fairy tales wherever you want, from whatever people you want, and from whatever time you want, fairy tales that are real fairy tales, you will always find that a certain basic set of ideas pulsates through all of them. I would like to point out here that we have already encountered giants who are overcome by cunning. Now jump forward thousands of years and think of Odysseus and the giant Polyphemus in the Odyssey. But let us place another fairy tale alongside this first one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. 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Dann ging er zum König und erzählte, wie er einen Riesen nach dem anderen erschlagen habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/108/1908-12-26/p007"},{"locus":"GA 108/1908-12-26/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Der König hielt sein Wort und gab ihm seine Tochter zur Gemahlin und der Schneider hielt mit der Königstochter Hochzeit. Der König wunderte sich sehr über die Stärke seines Schwiegersohnes. Aber weder der König noch die Tochter wußten, wer der hergereiste Mensch eigentlich sei, ob ein Schneider oder ein entsprungener Königssohn? Damals wußten sie es nicht. Wenn sie es seitdem nicht erfahren haben, dann wissen sie es heute noch nicht. Das ist das eine der Märchen, das wir im Prinzip einmal betrachten wollen. Wir wollen aber daneben, bevor wir darauf eingehen, ein anderes stellen. Denn wenn Sie Märchen auflesen, wo Sie wollen, bei welchem Volk Sie wollen, und aus welcher Zeit Sie wollen, Märchen, die richtige Märchen sind, da wird es sich immer herausstellen, daß ein gewisser Grundstock von Vorstellungen in allen Märchen pulsiert. Ich mache Sie hier schon darauf aufmerksam, daß wir den Riesen begegnet sind, die durch Schlauheit überwunden werden. Und nun machen Sie einen Sprung durch Jahrtausende und denken Sie in der Odysseus-Sage an Odysseus und den Riesen Polyphem. 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