![]() ![]() Edith Hodgetts' 1891 book Tales and Legends from the Land of the Tsar collects a Russian version, while Ruth Manning-Sanders included a Gascon version as "The Blacksmith and the Devil" in her 1970 book A Book of Devils and Demons. The tale was collected by Giambattista Basile in Lo cunto de li cunti of 1634, then the Brothers Grimm in their Children's and Household Tales (published in two volumes in 18), although they removed it in editions of 1822 and later, substituting " Brother Lustig" and relegating references to it to the notes for " Gambling Hansel", a very similar tale. In one version, the smith gains the power to weld any material, he then uses this power to stick the devil to an immovable object, allowing the smith to renege on the bargain. The story is of a smith who makes a pact with a malevolent being-commonly the Devil (in later times), Death, a demon or a genie-selling his soul for some power, then tricks the devil out of his prize. The Smith and the Devil is an Indo-European fairy tale. ![]() ![]() Illustration for the folk tale The Smith and the Devil, ink drawing, 1916 ![]()
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