The deceitful doe

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The deceitful doe ( Neapolitan original: La cerva fatata ) is a fairy tale (cf. AaTh 303). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the ninth story of the first day (I, 9). Felix Liebrecht translated The Enchanted Doe .

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A king donates a lot of money for free that God might give him children. On the advice of a wise man, his maid of honor cooks a dragon heart, which both the queen and the maid of honor eat in equal parts. They both have a son who is like twins. The queen becomes jealous and wants to kill the other boy. He moves away, but keeps a scar. At his brother's request, he first struck the earth with a dagger and a sword, where a spring rises and a myrtle grows, where he can see how he is doing. The king's son marries a king's daughter. An orco in the shape of a doe can outsmart him while hunting and lock him in a cave to eat. His brother is looking for him, is believed to be missing in the city, but at night he places a sword between himself and his brother's wife. He kills the orco, frees his brother, finally goes home and takes his mother, the lady-in-waiting, to him.

Remarks

Compare with Basile I, 7 Der Kaufmann . The dragon is caught here in the sea and functions rather unspecifically as a magic agent, as well as the spring and myrtle as sympathetic objects of the brothers, the latter is more important in I, 2 The Little Myrtle . Basile always means ' Orco ' as a monster. The fairy tale is similar to Zweibrüdermärchen (AaTh 303). It appeared in German in Felix Karlinger's Der adventurliche Glückstopf as The Devilish Hindin . Lorenzo Lippi arranged it in Il Malmantile racquistato , Canto 2. Rudolf Schenda also compares the gloomy cloud in his fairy tales from Tuscany , No. 25 ( Die Märchen der Weltliteratur , 1996) and variants in Floerke's Basile edition. The name of Princess Fenizia is reminiscent of Fénice in Chrétien de Troyes ' Cligès . Cf. in Grimm's fairy tale The Two Brothers , Die Goldkinder , Von Johannes-Wassersprung and Caspar-Wassersprung , on the Hirsch also De two Künigeskinner . Walter Scherf also reminds the evil dragon mother of the ancient Egyptian tale of brothers, the cave of self-abandonment of Tyrolean Fenggin stories such as Die Langtüttin (AaTh 327A), but also the white shirt, the heavy sword and the golden ring (AaTh 590).

Receptions

In 1978 Ruth Knorr created a German book edition The Enchanted Hirschkuh with pictures.

With Matteo Garrone's film The Fairy Tale of Fairy Tales , which is based on the Pentameron , The Insidious Doe was also filmed, although the filming takes some liberties with this fairy tale. The King is played by John C. Reilly , the Queen by Salma Hayek and the two sons of Christian and Jonah Lees.

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. 89-95, 525-526, 582-583 (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. 582-583 (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. 83-85.
  3. ↑ http://www.rossipotti.de/inhalt/literaturlexikon/illustratoren/knorr_ruth.html Rossipotti literature lexicon for children on Ruth Knorr