An Old Woman As The Devil's Helper Differences

In the folktale ¨An Old Woman as the Devil's Helper¨ there are a lot of differences and similarities between the Swedish version of An Old Woman as the Devil's Helper and the German version of the An Old Woman as the Devil's Helper. A difference is that the German version has the women cut three hairs of his adam's apple while the Swedish version has the women cut six hairs off his beard. The original version of An Old Woman as the Devil's Helper came from Germany by Martin Luther or Karl Bartsch. I could not find the original or the year it was made in.

The German and the Swedish version of the An Old Woman as the Devil's Helper for example, at the end of the story the devil calls her more evil than him "You are much, much worse than I am, said the devil,¨ which I think is impossible but it is in the story. …show more content…
Furthermore In both of Germany's and the Swedish version is that obviously both of the stories have the old wicked women. To add on both the Germans and the Swedish versions both have the husbands freaking out about the wicked women telling them there wife is going to slit their throat and both at the end the wives