The raven (Giambattista Basile)

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The raven ( Neapolitan original: Lo cuorvo ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 516). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the ninth story of the fourth day (IV, 9).

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A king sees a bloody raven on white marble while hunting and only thinks of a woman who looks like that. His brother buys him a hawk and a horse and meets a beggar who shows him a magician's daughter who looks like the picture. He lures them onto his ship with beautiful merchandise and sets off. During a storm he hears a dove saying to another that the falcon will peck out the king's eyes, the horse will break his neck and a dragon will devour him in bed with the bride. But if he tell him that, he will become marble himself. He kills the falcon and horse at the last moment, waits behind the bed and fends off the dragon. The king wakes up and sentences him to death. Then he tells him and becomes a marble statue. Once an old man comes and brings the king's brother back to life for the blood of his two little sons. The mother wants to throw herself out the window, but her father comes flying in a cloud and wakes the children again, because he only wanted to punish them for the kidnapping. Everyone is happy.

Remarks

Cf. on the color motif in Basile V, 9 The Three Lemons . Rudolf Schenda names Lorenzo Lippi's Canto VII Nardino and Brunetto , Carlo Gozzi's Il Corvo from 1777, Johann Gottlieb Schummel's The Sick Child in Children's Games and Conversations from 1777/78, Hartmann's Magic Opera Ravnen from 1832, in Kletke's Fairy Tale Hall (1845) No. 22 The Raven , in Pitrè / Schenda / Senn's fairy tales from Sicily No. 45 The two enchanted doves ( The fairy tales of world literature , 1991) with commentary. The faithful John in Grimm's fairy tales is strikingly similar .

Walter Scherf sees in the dragon here more clearly than in other versions the overpowering bond with his father, who floats in like on a baroque theater machine that the role of the beggar is puzzling.

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. 379–391, 558–559, 609 (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 , p. 609 (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. 955-957.