Allerleirauh appears as a royal-born daughter in a Grimm tale collected into Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Grimm no. 65). Faced with a king's intent to marry her (presented in the tale as an enforced/incestuous proposal), she asks for impossible gifts — three dresses (as bright as sun, moon, stars) and a mantle of every kind of fur — as delaying demands, then flees her father's court, hides in a great forest, and takes anonymous menial service in another king's kitchen until events allow her secret to be revealed (Wikipedia synopsis; sacred-texts Grimm text; archive summaries).
In the tale the heroine's defining disguise is a mantle made from the fur of every kind of bird and animal in the kingdom; while working in the kitchen she is soot-smeared or otherwise made homely and gives no name, earning the epithet 'All‑Kinds‑of‑Fur.' At three feasts she appears secretly wearing three extraordinary dresses she had requested: one as golden as the sun, one as silver as the moon, and one as dazzling as the stars. Variant versions sometimes add disguise gestures such as smearing the face with black powder or hiding a birthmark (documented in regional variants summarized in commentary).
Allerleirauh has no supernatural powers in the cited sources; her notable traits are resourcefulness, cunning, and endurance. She devises a delaying tactic (requesting impossible garments), flees with token objects (a gold ring and other tokens in some texts — e.g., a spindle and reel are narrative tokens in variants), assumes lowly service and silence to avoid detection, and later uses her dresses and hidden tokens to test and secure recognition by the new king (Wikipedia synopsis; sacred-texts Grimm text; archive summaries).
Weaknesses
- conditionordinary human vulnerability (no supernatural defenses)
Wards
None recorded.
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Community Record
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- [2]Allerleirauh (Grimm) — Internet Sacred Text Archive. Brothers Grimm, 'Allerleirauh' (full text transcription as archived on Sacred-Texts)literary
- [3]German Fairy Tales (Archive.org collection). Collected Grimm tales and scholarly collection (archive copy noted in research materials)literary
- [4]Allerleirauh — Merlinman retelling. Web retelling and synopsis used in comparative summariesfolk
- [5]Quinn Pollock — GNDS 335 Layout (Allerleirauh references). Comparative notes and variants list referencing ATU 510B and related motifsother