The pigeon (Giambattista Basile)

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The dove ( Neapolitan original: La palomma ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 408, 313). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the seventh story of the second day (II, 7).

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While hunting, the prince knocks over the bean pot for the fun of an old woman. She curses him for loving a girl with a bad mother. He finds the beautiful woman, exchanges words of love, and her ugly mother comes along. The prince has to dig up the land until she climbs back into the house with her daughter's hair in the evening, then splitting wood in large quantities. He is desperate, but the daughter helps with fairy powers, flees with him and waits in a grotto. Her mother curses him for forgetting his loved one when his mother first kissed him, who also got him a bride. His wife hires disguised as a kitchen boy and hides a pigeon in the wedding pie, which shows him his faithlessness. He remembers and the other leaves willingly. The old woman appears again and curses him, but his wife calms him down.

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The injured old woman takes revenge in the shape of the stepmother, then her own mother, and finally threatens the woman to be unfaithful: "Whoever sows beans, horns grow". Compare with the overturned pot (AaTh 408) the framework plot of Pentameron , with the hair as rope II, 1 Petrosinella , the forgotten bride in man's clothes III, 3 Viso , III, 6 Der Knoblauchwald , III, 9 Rosella , IV, 6 Die three crowns , to the fairy IV, 5 The dragon , V, 4 The golden trunk , to the dove V, 9 The three lemons . In Grimm's fairy tales, see especially Der Drummler . Rudolf Schenda compares in Gonzenbach No. 13, No. 15, v. a. No. 54 From Autumunti and Paccaredda , in Pitrès Sicilian collection No. 13 Bianca-comu-nivi (German Pitre / Schenda / Senn fairy tales from Sicily No. 11 white-like-snow-red-like-fire ), De Simone No. 1, no. 66 and newer variants in Cirese / Serafinis Tradizioni orali non cantate .

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. 173-183, 540-541, 591-592 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

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  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. 591-592 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).