The little slave

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The little slave girl ( Neapolitan original: La schiavottella ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 894). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the eighth story of the second day (II, 8). Felix Liebrecht translated The Kitchen Maid .

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While playing with friends, the baron's sister swallows a rose petal and becomes pregnant from it. Fairies who are friends bless the child after the birth, but a fairy who rushes up dislocates her ankle and accidentally curses it to death at the age of seven by combing it. This is how it happens: the child dies when the mother combs it and the comb gets stuck in the hair. The child is put in a crystal shrine and the room is locked. The mother is dying of grief, she gives the baron the key to the burial chamber, which he should never use. His jealous wife, however, disregards the instruction and finds the beauty in the glass coffin, tears her hair out of anger, which causes the comb to fall off and the child wakes up. From then on, the woman mistreated her as a slave in such a way that the baron did not recognize her as his niece. When he promised everyone in the house something to bring back from a trip, she wanted a doll, knife and pumice stone. She complains to the doll while sharpening the knife on the pumice stone and threatens to stab herself if the doll does not answer. The baron overhears this, frees his niece and chases his wife away.

Remarks

Compare baroque relics of saints in glass coffins. Compare with Basile on the miraculous pregnancy I, 3 Peruonto and I, 9 The deceitful doe . Cf. in Grimm's fairy tale on the curse of Sleeping Beauty , on the glass coffin Snow White , The Glass Coffin , on the forbidden chamber Fitchers Vogel , Bluebeard , The Murder Castle , on the cutting of the hair Rapunzel , on the travel gift The singing, jumping lion , on the interrogated confession The Goose Maid . Clemens Brentano edited the fairy tale in German as Das Märchen vom Rosenblätchen in Italienische Märchen . Walter Scherf compares other versions.

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. 184-188, 541, 592-593 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 1. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39911-8 , pp. 761-765.