The two small cakes

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Illustration by Franz von Bayros , 1909

The two small cakes ( Neapolitan original: Le doie pizzelle ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 480, 403). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the seventh story on the fourth day (IV, 7). Felix Liebrecht translated The Two Cakes .

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Luceta has a good daughter named Marziella, her sister Troccola a bad one, Puccia. Luceta sends Marziella to the fountain and gives her fresh cake, which she gives to a beggar. As a reward, pearls fall out of her hair in the morning. When the Troccola sees them, she sends Puccia there too. She is nasty, eats the cake herself and then has lice in her hair. Luceta's brother praises King Marziella's beauty, who wants to see her. Troccola also takes Puccia and throws Marziella into the sea on the way. A siren keeps them alive. But the king chases Puccia away, and the brother has to herd geese as punishment, about which he hardly cares and only complains about his lot. Marziella emerges from the sea and feeds the geese, which carry it to the king. Then he sees her beauty, frees her from the siren's chain and marries her. Troccola is burned.

Remarks

Compare with Basile III, 10 The Three Fairies , with Straparola Biancabella ( Piacevoli notti , III, 3). Such fairy tales perhaps come from the parable of the wise and foolish virgins ( Mt 25.1  EU ). Rudolf Schenda also compares Pitrè / Schenda / Senn's note on Die Mammadrà in Märchen aus Sicily No. 4, From the sister of Muntifiuri and Von Quaddaruni and his sister in Gonzenbach's Sicilian Fairy Tales , No. 33, 34, Ciciruni in Pitrès Fiabe, Novelle e Racconti popolari siciliane , No. 60, Oraggio e Bianchinetta in Imbrianis Novellaja , No. 25, Calvino No. 95 with annotations and 47 modern variants in Cirese / Serafinis Tradizioni orali non cantate .

Cf. later Perrault's Die Feen , in Grimm's fairy tales especially No. 13 The Three Little Men in the Forest and No. 135 The White and Black Bride - but also No. 24 Frau Holle and No. 89 The Goose Girl point with the hereafter mother and goose hats Individual motifs on Basiles text. In Grimm, no. 169 Das Waldhaus and no. 201 St. Joseph im Walde are related types . See Zitterinchen in Bechstein's German book of fairy tales .

Walter Scherf notices the absence of her father and the rather helpless loyalty of her brother; the young woman has to develop her strength in the sea. Such good daughter-mother relationships are by no means the best.

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. 358–365, 556–557, 607–608 (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. 607-608 (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. 67-70.