There is a Breton Marchen of a land where people had to 'bring the Dawn' daily with carts and horses.
The Marchen is a survival of the state of mind of the Solomon Islanders.
A curious variant of this widely distributed Marchen of the animal bride is found in the mythical genealogy of the Raja of Chutia Nagpur, a chief of the Naga, or snake race.
The earlier part of the Jason cycle is analysed in the author's preface to Grimm's Marchen (Bell & Sons).
The lover in the familiar Welsh and German Marchen sees the swan-maidens throw off their swan plumage and dance naked.
The Kalevala is thus a link between Marchen and Volkslieder on one side, and epic poetry on the other.
Sometimes perhaps, especially in the scholia on the Iliad and Odyssey, they furnish us with a precious myth or popular marchen not otherwise recorded.
This incident is even more common in the marchen or household tales than in the regular tribal or national myths of the world.
Here then we have in the Hesiodic myth an old marchen pressed into the service of the higher mythology.
As we know, mediaeval popular Christianity, in imagery, marchen or tales, and art, copiously illustrates the same mental phenomenon.
The story of Joseph and the marchen of Jean de l'Ours are well-known examples.
In myths, and still more in marchen or household tales, we shall constantly find that the most miraculous effects are caused when the hero pronounces a few lines of rhyme.
Marchen certainly did set out from mediaeval India, and reached mediaeval Europe and Asia in abundance.
But the question of the relations of marchen to myths, and of both to romance, may be left unanswered for the moment.
Little was done to secure the scientific satisfaction of curiosity about traditional folk-tales, contes or marchen till the time when the brothers Grimm collected the stories of Hesse.
They were supplied by the universal early conditions of the prescientific human intellect; Thus the stuff of marchen is everywhere the same.
More pressing questions are, what is the origin, and where the original home of the marchen or popular tales, and how have they been so widely diffused all over the world?
The sagas, epics and marchen seem to explain nothing, but to be told, in the first instance, either to illustrate and enforce a moral, or for the mere pleasure of imaginative narration.
But he felt that the presence of the marchenamong Bechuanas, Negroes and Finns was not thus to be explained.
Thus each "peculiarly Indian" idea supposed to be found in marchen proves to be practically universal.
Thus to a certain, but in Grimm's opinion to a very limited extent, the existence of similar situations in the marchen of the most widely separated peoples is the result of the common facts of human thought and sentiment.
His tendency apparently was to explain the community of the marchen on the hypothesis that they were the original common store of the undivided Aryan people, carried abroad in the long wanderings of the race.
We compare it with the dry mythologic blossoms of the classical hortus siccus, and with Greek ritual and temple legend, and with Marchen in the scholiasts, and we think the comparisons very illuminating.
This fable, as old, in actual written literature, as Moses, is a complex of half the Marchen plots and incidents in the world.
But he adds, 'not that every Marchen contains a reference to Nature; that I am far from asserting' (p.
Now perhaps nobody will deny that some incidents in Marchen may have been originally suggested by nature-myths.
These Marchen have no necessary connection with each other; they are tagged on to each other, and localised in Greece and on the Euxine.
He thinks that even when the Sun is not named, his presence, and reference to him, and derivation of the incidents in Marchen from solar myth, may sometimes be detected with great probability (pp.
The story of the crafty adventurer and the blinding of the giant, with the punning device by which the hero escaped, exists in the shape of a detached marchen or fairy-tale among races who never heard of Homer.
A rough, but perfectly recognisable form of the Phaeacian myth, is found in an Indian collection of marchen (already referred to) of the twelfth century A.
Gerland, in his Alt Griechische Marchen in der Odyssee, his shown that the story makes part of the collection of Somadeva, a store of Indian tales, of which 1200 A.
More probably the origin is a Marchenof a kind of Rakshasa fatal to women.
The kind of story, the loving daughter of the cruel captor, is as old as Medea and Jason, and her search for her lover comes in such Marchen as "The Black Bull o' Norraway.
The situation, with various differences in detail and conclusion, is popular in Norse and Romaic ballads, and also in many Marchen of the type of The Black Bull of Norraway.
The former class is based on one of the primeval invented situations, one of the elements of the Marchen in prose.
It was part of their day's work; but following them came a detachment of Germans singing "Marchen Rote," and then the battery of six guns and then the Kansans.
For thou schalt conquere the londs and the contrees, that ben abouten: and thei that marchen upon zou, schulle ben undre zoure subieccioun, as zee han ben undre hires: for that is Goddes wille inmortalle.
The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue From the Japanische Marchen und Sagen.
Uraschimataro and the Turtle From the Japanische Marchen und Sagen, von David Brauns (Leipzig: Wilhelm Friedrich).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marchen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
