The goat face

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The goat face ( Neapolitan original: La facce de crapa ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 710). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the eighth story of the first day (I, 8).

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A poor farm worker is coerced by a fairy in the form of a lizard to surrender his youngest daughter, Renzolla. In return, she gives him dowry for the eleven others, raises Renzolla in splendor and introduces her to a king who has lost his way in the forest. But when Renzolla leaves with him without a word of thanks, she gives her a goat face. So the king lets her spin flax with a servant and raise a dog, but she throws both out of the window. The fairy has to help. When Renzolla finally asks her to forgive her rudeness, she lets her drive up in a splendid carriage so that the king will be happy to welcome her.

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At the end there is Basile's moral “that it is always useful to be polite”, cf. III, 10 The three fairies . According to Rudolf Schenda , the fairy tale type could go back to early antiquity and was later Christianized. Usually the poor father meets the monster at work; a conflict arises between the real and the supernatural world and the immature child. Schenda mentions later versions: From the path child of St. Franz von Paula near Gonzenbach , No. 20, Domenico Comparettis La Barbuta (1875, No. 3), a variant by Cirese / Serafini from the 19th century. Thomas Keightley translated the text into English in 1828, Wolff from there into German ( Mythologie der Feen und Elfen , Part 2, Weimar 1828, pp. 307-318). It appeared in Kletke's fairy tale hall from 1845 as No. 6, in 1846 Liebrecht's translation came. Compare with Grimm Marienkind , on the handover of the child ( Jephtha motif) also Rapunzel , the girl without hands , Rumpelstiltskin , the singing jumping lion , the king of the golden mountain , Hans my hedgehog , the mermaid in the pond , to the forbidden door Fitchers bird , Bluebeard , The Murder Castle . Walter Scherf interprets the lizard as a demanding and caring supermother, a childish dream that cannot go well.

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. 82-88, 524-525, 582 (based on the Neapolitan text from 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. 82-88, 524-525, 582 (based on the Neapolitan text from 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 1444-1446.