The latch

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The bar ( Neapolitan original: Lo catenaccio ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 425 E). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the ninth story of the second day (II, 9). Felix Liebrecht translated The Padlock .

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The youngest of three poor sisters is the only one to fetch some water from the well for her mother and there meets a beautiful slave who pampers her in a secret palace. She visits her envious sisters several times, who insidiously advise her to avoid the sleeping potion. At night she sees the beautiful woman next to her, but gives herself away and has to go. Disapproved by the sisters, a lady-in-waiting takes the pregnant woman in; she has a son. At night a young man speaks a poem to him who is gone when the cock screams. Then the queen has all the roosters killed, recognizes her son and hugs him, which lifts his spell. The sisters get repaid for their wickedness.

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At night, the heroine opens a catenaccio , i.e. a chain lock, which suggests breaking a taboo, but is not specified in the original. The poem reads: "O bello figlio mio, se lo sapesse mamma mia, 'n conca d'oro te lavarria,' n fasce d'oro te 'nfasciarria, e si maie gallo cantasse, mai da te me partarria!" the virtuous lady not only found a secret palace, but through her unintentional blunder comes to the prince's mother, who immediately redeems him. The plot is similar to Amor and Psyche and in Basile V, 4 the golden trunk . Rudolf Schenda names various Italian variants for the canonical narrative successes of the journey as punishment and birth at the court of the prince who appears at night, including a. King Stieglitz near Gonzenbach , no. 15. Cf. in Grimm's fairy tale Das singende, jumping Löweneckerchen , Der Eisenofen or The three little men in the forest , The white and the black bride .

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. 189-193, 541-542, 593-594 (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. 542 (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 , pp. 593-594 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).