Cannetella

Cannetella ( Italian "canneto", reed) is a fairy tale . It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the first story of the third day (III, 1).

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Cannetella does not want to marry and demands a man with a gold head from her father. An enemy wizard has one made and puts her in a stable with only horse feed. Once she takes grapes from the garden, the horses betray her, and he threatens to kill her. A latrine cleaner smuggles them home in the sludge barrel. Only at the birthmark does the father recognize her and she complains of her suffering. The bad guy bribes the old neighbor and spots Cannetella from the balcony. Seven iron doors are supposed to protect her, but he has a magic paper stuck in her bed that lulls everyone in the house. As he pulls her away, it falls out. Everyone wakes up and kills him.

Remarks

The king names his daughter "Cannetella" (small tube), after Syrinx , who fled from Pan and became a reed ( Ovid's Metamorphoses , I). A cesspool for emptying Naples' toilets is the height of humiliation here. Basile's heroines in III, 4 The wise Liccarda , V, 3 Pinto Smauto are more clever . The paper may contain a drug, cf. III, 9 Rosella .

The fairy tale first appeared in German in Kletke's fairy tale hall , No. 12. Today it is reminiscent of King Drosselbart and Bluebeard . Rudolf Schenda names Italian versions in the 19th and 20th centuries: Gonzenbach's Sicilian Fairy Tales No. 22, Pitrè / Schenda / Senn's Fairy Tales from Sicily No. 15 and No. 43, newer versions in Cirese / Serafini's Tradizioni orali non cantate .

Walter Scherf sees a girl who doesn't want to move out at home; one should laugh at the childlike mixture of fear and presumption. But if fairy tales with daughter-father conflict often begin with walling in, it ends like this. The cry of the lonely waking is a nightmare, there is no maturation in the demon, cf. Deusmi , the girl and the dog heads .

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. 214-220, 544-545, 595 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

Web links

Gutenberg-DE: Cannetella in German translation (probably after Felix Liebrecht)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: Pictures by Josef Hegenbarth zu Cannetella : [1] , [2]

Individual evidence

^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , pp. 544-545 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
^ Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , p. 595 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 1. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 141-144.

[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. 544-545 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

[2] Giambattista Basile: The fairy tale of fairy tales. The pentameron. Edited by Rudolf Schenda. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46764-4 , p. 595 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

[3] Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 1. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 141-144.