Hare's Bride

The story is about the lady and her daughter and the main hare who wants to marry the girl but the girl doesn't want to try to do so. The Hare's Bride, also known as Hasichenbraut, is a German fairy tale that the Brothers Grimm gathered and included in the second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Grimm's Fairy Tales), which was released in 1819. It's an Aarne-Thompson-type 311 story. So this story contains how the girl has addressed the hare and came back from the hare’s foolishness. Let’s read the story to know it in the proper way.

The Hare’s Bride

Hare's Bride Moral Story

There was once a lady and her daughter who lived in a pretty garden with cabbages; and a little hare came into it,  and through  the winter time ate all the cabbages. The daughter went and told the hare to go away. Says the hare, "Come, maiden, and seat yourself on my little hare's tail,  and be available  with me in my little hare's hut." The girl  won't  do it. Next day the hare comes again and eats the cabbages, then says the mother to the daughter, "Go into the garden, and drive the hare away." The girl says to the hare, "Sh-sh, little hare,  you're  still eating all the cabbages."  The small  hare says, "Maiden, seat yourself on my little hare's tail, and be available with me in my little hare's hut." The maiden refuses. The third day the hare comes again, and eats the cabbages. On this the mother says to the daughter, "Go into the garden, and hunt the hare away." Says the maiden, "Sh-sh, little hare, you're still eating all our cabbages." Says  the small  hare, "Come, maiden, seat thyself on my little hare's tail,  and be available  with me into my little hare's hut.”

The Girl and the Hare

The girl, however, was sad, for she was  on their lonesome. The hare came and said open the door but she didn’t reply. The small  hare goes away. The small  hare comes back and says, "Take off the lid,  begin  the lid, the wedding-guests are hungry." The bride again says nothing, and weeps.  the small  hare goes away. The small hare comes back and says, "Take off the lid, begin the lid, the wedding-guests are waiting." Then the bride says nothing, and therefore the  hare goes away, but she dresses a straw-doll in her clothes, and provides  her a spoon to stir with, and sets her by the pan with the millet-seed, and goes back to her mother. The small  hare comes once more and says, "Take off the lid, begin the lid," and gets up, and strikes the doll on  the top  so that her cap falls off.

Then the hare saw his bride run away.

Hare Asking the Girl to Marry Him

Hare's Bride Summary

A woman and her daughter make many cabbages in their garden. A hare wants to eat up all the cabbages.

When the girl told hare to go away from the cabbages. He replied, “First, sit on my little tail  and be available  to my little hut.” She refused  to concentrate  on him.  the same thing has done by hare again

The third time, the girl agreed  to try to do as the hare demanded.  Once they  reached the hut, he asked her to cook green cabbage and millet seed  for his or her  wedding as he intended to marry her.

The girl was very sad and  didn't  wish to marry the hare. She locked herself inside the kitchen and sat  in a  corner and wept.

Suddenly, she had a thought. She dressed a  doll in her clothes, kept a spoon in her hand and placed it by the pan. When she saw the hare was not near she ran away to her home.

Note  to Parents 

Needless to say, short stories are an outstanding tool through which young kids can learn morality and ethics. Hare's bride and other tales like it also help young children develop survival skills. The hare bride pdf can be downloaded online.

Conclusion

The story is about a hare and a girl who grows cabbage in the fields. The hare insists that the girl prepare green cabbage and millet seed. The girl is depressed and rejects the hare's proposal. She puts on her clothes for a doll, holds a spoon in her hand, and sets it down by the pan. She fled to her home when she realised the hare was not nearby.