Hans My Hedgehog
| Hans My Hedgehog | |
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Hans My Hedgehog meets the king on its chicken mount. Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde. | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | Hans My Hedgehog |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 441 |
| Country | Germany |
| Published in | Grimm's Fairy Tales |
"Hans My Hedgehog" (German: Hans mein Igel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 108). The tale was translated as Jack My Hedgehog by Andrew Lang and published in The Green Fairy Book. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 441.
The tale follows the events in the life of a diminutive half-hedgehog, half-human being named Hans, who eventually sheds his animal skin and turns wholly human after winning a princess.