The Brothers Grimm's "Bearskin"
A soldier returns from the wars, and now that his parents have died, he seeks shelter with his brothers. But they reject him, and he wanders, penniless and starving, into a field. The wind shifts, and a sly man in a green coat appears. The soldier is to kill a bear, and he does so unflinchingly, so the green frocked man offers him a deal: if he wears the bearskin, which is what he will be known by, for seven years, without washing or dying, he will have great fortune. But if he fails, his soul will go to the devil.
Bearskin agrees, and wanders the world wearing the devil’s green coat with its…
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