The goose

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The goose ( Neapolitan original: La papara ) is a fairy tale (cf. AaTh 571C). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the first story of the fifth day (V, 1).

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Two poor sisters buy a goose that shits gold for them. Envious women spy out the cause of the new wealth and steal the goose under a pretext, but only harvest stinking droppings and throw them in the trash. A prince on the hunt wipes his bum on it, and she bites herself. Many try to heal it, only the beloved animal jumps towards the owner. She marries him, the sister another, the thieves are whipped away.

Remarks

The fairy tale is based on Adamantina in Straparola's Piacevoli notti (V, 2). From Aesop is The Goose with the Golden Eggs . Compare with Basile IV, 1 Der Stein des Gockels , later Grimms Die goldene Gans , Bechstein's Das Dukaten-Angele . Rudolf Schenda mentions La pupidda in Pitrès Sicilia , No. 288 and its comments on No. 25. Schenda also notes the proximity to the animal groom material (e.g. Prince Swan ) and psychoanalytic interpretations of the goose as an anal intermediate object . She is considered an affectionate animal, and baroque popular literature likes "arks". François Rabelais ' Gargantua (I, 13) explains : "... you feel a strange lust in your asshole, first because of the softness of the downy feathers, but also because of the warmth of the goose." This was already quoted by Felix Liebrecht's comment on the text. Walter Scherf finds Basile's treatment rather flat.

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. 417-420, 561-562, 610-611 (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. 610-611 (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. 392-393.