The three fairies

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The three fairies ( Neapolitan original: Le tre fate ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 480, 403). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the tenth story of the third day (III, 10).

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The stepmother disadvantages Cicella because she is beautiful and her own daughter is ugly. She dresses them badly and makes them work. Once, Cicella's basket falls into an abyss to an ugly guy. She asks politely and comes to three fairies in a palace, who welcomes her in a friendly manner and lets her comb her. They like their polite behavior, she does not look at the expensive furniture and only takes a ragged skirt and a gold star falls on her forehead as she leaves. The stepmother immediately sends her daughter, but she is arrogant to the fairies and receives an ugly donkey testicle on her forehead. Cicella has to look after pigs. A prince wants to marry her. The stepmother disguises her daughter, with whom he is spending a bad night, and puts Cicella in a barrel. He finds her and puts the other one in there, her mother scalds her like a pig and then throws herself to death.

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Compare with Basile IV, 7 The Two Small Cakes , V, 2 The Months , with Perrault Die Feen , with Grimm Nos. 13 , 24 , 135 , 201 . Rudolf Schenda names the modern variants in his Sicilian and Tuscan fairy tale collection No. 30 Burdilluni and No. 19 Der Pike and many more at Cirese / Serafini . Walter Scherf finds the good daughter's independence development better represented in the Sorbian fairy tale of the forest demon Kosmatej .

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. 281-290, 549-550, 602-603 (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. 281-290, 549-550, 602-603 (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 3-406-39911-8 , pp. 193-195.