The Bright Sun Brings It to Light

"The Bright Sun Brings It to Light" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales, tale number 115.^[1]

It is Aarne-Thompson type 960, The Sun Brings All to Light.^[2]

Synopsis

A tailor's apprentice robs and murders a Jew on the road, despite the Jew saying that "The bright sun will bring it to light." He then settled down. One day, he saw the sunlight reflecting from his coffee and jeered about its bringing "it" to light. His wife bothered him until he told her what he meant. She gossiped about it, and he was arrested and executed.

Variants

The Grimms also recorded a version where the threat of that birds would bring it to light, and the man laughed at a partridge because of it.^[1]

References

1 2 Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "The Bright Sun Brings it to Light"
↑ D. L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"

The Brothers Grimm

Key articles	Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm Grimms' Fairy Tales Deutsche Sagen Deutsche Mythologie

Notable tales	The Frog Prince Cat and Mouse in Partnership Mary's Child The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids Trusty John The Wonderful Musician The Twelve Brothers Brother and Sister Rapunzel The Three Little Men in the Wood The Three Spinners Hansel and Gretel The White Snake The Fisherman and His Wife The Brave Little Tailor Cinderella The Riddle Little Red Riding Hood Town Musicians of Bremen Snow White Rumpelstiltskin Sleeping Beauty

Other	Grimm's law Göttingen Seven Grim Tales The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics The Brothers Grimm Grimm Tales The Sisters Grimm Fairy tale American McGee's Grimm German Fairy Tale Route Grimm Once Upon a Time

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