I came across the story when I was looking at the website for EuropaPark and read it on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wishing-Table,_the_Gold-Ass,_and_the_Cudgel_in_the_Sack
What is the lesson or moral of the story? To not brag? To keep your thoughts to yourself? Did you like the story when you were little kids?
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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tischchen_deck_dich,_Goldesel_und_Kn%C3%BCppel_aus_dem_Sack#Interpretation
It’s a fairy tale not a fable. Those don’t necessarily have much of a moral or lesson. The obvious one and the one I saw as a kid was “having wealth doesn’t matter, if you don’t have the means to protect it.”
I liked it as a kid, because there is some rather nice wish fullfillment going on. Those brothers get some epic stuff providing infinite food, money and the power to kick people’s asses and the bad guy gets a beating.
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I think some deeper interpretations like given in the link seems rather whacky.
Don’t listen to goats and don’t trust innkeepers?
It is basicaly the “nice to havely Hallows”.