The dung beetle, the mouse and the cricket

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The dung beetle, the mouse and the cricket ( Neapolitan original: Lo scarafone, lo sorece e lo grillo ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 559). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the fifth story on the third day (III, 5). Felix Liebrecht translated The Dung Beetle, the Mouse and the Cricket .

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Stupid Nardiello gets money for cattle from the market three times from his father and buys a guitar-playing dung beetle, a dancing mouse and a singing cricket from fairies. It takes a beating at home A prince promises his daughter to whoever makes her laugh. Nardiello manages that with the animals. But the prince made it a condition for him to complete the marriage in three days, gave him three sleeping drinks, then locked him with the lions and brought a German prince to be his bridegroom. The dung beetle crawls up his ass at night, which acts as an enema. Cloths do not protect either, the mouse bites a hole in them. He sticks a gunner's wooden peg in it and stays awake, but the cricket lulls him and the mouse rubs mustard into his nose. He sneezes, shits again and hits the bride with the cone. There she gets Nardiello.

Remarks

Compare with Basile I, 3 Peruonto , III, 8 Der Dummling . Basile repeats the motif of not laughing from the framework plot of the Pentameron , he paints the German shit with relish, cf. V, 1 The goose . Rudolf Schenda compares in Geneviève Massignon's Folktales of France No. 14 The Tale of La Ramée , in Felix Karlinger's Provençal Fairy Tales No. 51 The Farrier of Barbaste , in Pia Todorović-Strähl's fairy tale from Ticino No. 27 The two tinkers . Walter Scherf admires basic humor with an intact fairytale structure. Both children struggle with comparable dependence on their father. His nocturnal jealousy finally makes it clear what took away from his daughter's laughter. Scherf compares Jean-François Bladés The Blacksmith of Fumel , Ignaz Vinzenz and Josef Zingerles Eichhorn, Käfer, Maus , Aleksandr Nikolaevič Afanas'evs The Tsar's Daughter Who Never Smiled . Compare with Grimm The golden goose , The faithful animals .

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. 246-254, 546-547, 598-599 (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. 598-599 (based on the Neapolitan text of 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. 873-878.