Cagliuso

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Cagliuso is a fairy tale ( AaTh 545B). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the fourth story of the second day (II, 4).

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The dying father regrets not being able to leave anything to his sons, only a sieve for the elder and the cat for Cagliuso, the younger. He whines, but the cat gives the king molten fish, flies and the like as gifts in his name. When he finally wants to see him, she persuades him to lend Cagliuso clothes, because his servants have just run away, and places him at the table as a rich man. She runs ahead of the king's scouts and tells everywhere that robbers are coming, one has to say that everything belongs to Cagliuso. So the king sees himself confirmed and gives him his daughter. Cagliuso grandly thanks his cat, she should have everything and will be embalmed after death, when she pretends to be dead and hears him just want to throw her out of the window. She runs away indignantly.

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On the father's advice cf. at Basile IV, 2 The two brothers . The fairy tale appears in Straparola (XI, 1 Costantino Fortunato ). It was often received, Rudolf Schenda gives examples: From Conte Piro in Gonzenbach's Sicilian Fairy Tales , No. 65; Re Messemèmi-gli-becca-'l-fumo in Imbrianis Novellaja , No. 10; Don Giuseppi Birnbaum in Pitrès Fiabe, Novelle e Racconti popolari siciliane II, No. 88 (German in Die Märchen der Weltliteratur , 1991); Peppiniello e la gatta in De Simone's Fiabe campane I, no. 19. In the Italian-speaking world, cunning is usually attached to a female cat or a fox, as is the case here. The fairy tale first appeared in German in 1825 in von der Hagens tales and fairy tales ( The busy cat ) and after Thomas Keightley's English version in Wolff's Mythologie der Feen und Elfen (1828), which Kletke in Märchensaal (1845) took over. The well-known fairy tale Puss in Boots ( Perrault , Grimm ) is not directly related to it.

literature

  • Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 151-155, 537-538, 587-588 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 587-588 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , p. 430.