The months

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The months ( Neapolitan original: Li mise ) is a fairy tale (cf. AaTh 480, 563). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the second story of the fifth day (V, 2).

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Poor Lise doesn't get anything from his rich brother Cianne. Desperate he wanders away and meets twelve young men in an inn. One asks him what he thinks of this weather and the unpopular month of March. Lise replies in a gracious manner and is thankful to receive a box with which he can wish for what he needs, because the man was March itself. So Lise travels home in a warm litter with porters, good food, comfortable beds for the night and in an elegant suit to Cianne. He immediately rushes off to the men, but is so gossiping that March gives him a whip. At home he tries it out and is so beaten up that his brother has to intervene with the box and comfort him, after all he has enough for both of them. But Cianne only speaks well of everything.

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Rudolf Schenda refers to fairy tales from March and his arguments with the shepherds and Italian proverbs such as “Marzo pazzo” (March is crazy), as well as personifications of the twelve months in Renaissance frescoes. He finds parallels and a. in Ilg's Maltese Fairy Tales . The first German translation is in Kletke's fairy tale hall from 1845 at position 7.

Compare with Basile III, 10 Die Drei Feen , later Perrault's Die Feen , with Grimm The three little men in the forest , with the whip also a little table set yourself, gold donkey and club out of the sack , the devil and his grandmother . Strawberries in winter in Karel Dvorák's collection The oldest fairy tales in Europe from 1983 apparently draws on this one. Walter Scherf thinks the Catalan version is particularly beautiful. Give me a hundred! with Felix Karlinger and Johannes Pögl , recorded in 1967 in Tarragona.

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. 421-425, 562-563, 611-612 (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. 562-563, 611-612 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Karel Dvorák (ed.): The oldest fairy tales in Europe. 2nd Edition. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1986, pp. 13-14 (Artia Verlag, Praha 1983, translated by Ingeburg Zpĕváčková).
  3. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 881-882.