![]() He buys leather for three and stays up to find the elves making the shoes.He gives away one pair to a needy person and sells the other pair to a referral from the first customer who is immensely satisfied. The elves come, again, that night and make two pairs of shoes with the additional leather. He cuts the pieces of leather for two pairs, and retires for the night. He has just enough money to buy enough leather for two pairs of shoes.He uses that money to pay the rent, buy food and more shoe leather. Elves come in the night and make the pair of shoes which he sells for more than his asking price the next day. ![]() He cuts out the pieces of leather, before going to bed, so that he can sew them into a pair of shoes on the morrow. He has leather to make one more pair of shoes. He gives away the last pair of shoes he has to a needy lady. A poor shoemaker and his wife need money to pay the rent. ![]() There are variations depending on the rendition of the story. The Aarne-Thompson folklore classification system categorizes the story as type 503*: Helpful Elves and also as a migratory legend, type 7015. In her translation of 1884 Margaret Hunt chose The Elves as title for these three stories. The original story is the first of three fairy tales, contained as entry 39 in the German Grimm's Fairy Tales under the common title "Die Wichtelmänner". " The Elves and the Shoemaker" is an often copied and re-made 1806 story about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from elves. ![]()
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