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Trusty John
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"Trusty John", "Faithful John", "Faithful Johannes", or "John the True" (German: Der treue Johannes) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1819 (KHM 6).[1] Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book.[2]
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![]() The faithful servant stands beside his lord's bedside. An illustration of the story by H. J. Ford. | |
Folk tale | |
Name | Trusty John |
Also known as | Faithful John, Faithful Johannes, John the Truewww |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 516 (Faithful John) |
Region | Germany |
Published in | Kinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brothers Grimm |
Related | In Love with a Statue, How to find out a True Friend, The Man of Stone, Amis et Amiles, Father Roquelaure, The Raven |
It is Aarne-Thompson type 516.[1] Others of this type are Father Roquelaure and The Raven.[3] Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson catalogued about 500 tales under this type, of which over 200 were Irish, and the remainder, from the rest of Europe and European colonies in America.[4] Such tales include In Love with a Statue, How to find out a True Friend, The Man of Stone, and Amis et Amiles.