The ash cat

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The ash cat ( Neapolitan original: La gatta cenerentola ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 510 A, B). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the sixth story of the first day (I, 6).

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The stepmother hates princess Zezolla. She complains of her suffering to the head of house, who pats her and knows what to do: Zezolla has the stepmother fetch her a bad dress and throws the chest lid on her neck. Then she gets the father to marry the teacher. However, she previously kept six of her own daughters secret, who are now displacing Zezolla. When the father asks each one what he should bring her, she only wishes a nice greeting to the dove among the fairies. At first he forgets, but his ship is stuck in the harbor until he fetches a date with a pickaxe, gold bucket and silk scarf from the fairy hut. Zezolla plants them. When the sisters go to a party, she says a saying to the date tree, is nicely dressed and goes after. The king sees her and has her pursued, but she disappears twice by throwing gold and jewels behind her. After the third feast the servant keeps a shoe. It doesn't fit a woman at a huge feast, so Zezolla has to come too. He flies to her feet, and the king makes her queen.

Remarks

Cf. on the entrance to Basile III, 10 The three fairies , IV, 7 The two small cakes , on the father's gift also II, 8 The little slave girl . The stuck ship can already be found in the eleventh story of the Arabic book of wondrous stories or the Hikâyât (15th century), the shoe sample in Claudius Aelianus ' Greek collection of stories (3rd century). Cf. later Charles Perraults / Grimms Cinderella , on the murder with the chest lid also Von dem Machandelboom . Walter Scherf particularly notices the triple chain the child of disappointing women, the chest belonged to the mother's realm.

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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. 63-69, 522-523, 580 (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. 522-523 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 1. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 36-39.