The seven rinds

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The seven rinds ( Neapolitan original: Le sette catenelle ) is a fairy tale ( AaTh 501). It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the fourth story of the fourth day (IV, 4).

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A beggar beats up her daughter for eating the seven rinds of bacon from the soup and cutting a shoe sole into it. She told a rich merchant who heard the screams that she had to keep her daughter from overworking, that she had already spun seven bobbins that morning. Then he marries her. He thinks miracles that she will spin 20 bundles of flax while he is traveling to Mass. The lazy woman eats herself full and, before returning, simply wraps the bundle around a large pole, which she ties in front of the house. A few fairies are so happy that all the flax is spun, woven into cloth and bleached. When the man comes home, she beds herself on nuts that make it sound as if all the bones are breaking. The doctor who is called sees through her, but her husband never lets her work again.

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The spinner lets the giant spindle hang on the terrace railing, puts on a pumpkin and sprinkles passers-by with macaroni broth. According to Rudolf Schenda, this alludes to a carnival custom. On the fairies, here border motif, cf. the moiras . Schenda also mentions Italian variants, u. a. La ragazza golosa in Busks The Folk-Lore of Rome , 1874 and La Ghiuttana in Pitrès Fiabe, Novelle e Racconti popolari siciliane , no. 93. The fairy tale first appeared in German in Kletke's fairy tale hall from 1845 as no. 14 The seven bacon rinds . According to Walter Scherf, there is hardly any literature on this funny parody of laziness, obsession and greed, only the Grimm's table of contents. Compare with Grimm The three spinners , Rumpelstiltskin , The clever Gretel , The lazy spinner . Compare in Georgios Sarantis-Aridas ' Greek Fairy Tale No. 1 The Idle Woman .

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. 329-335, 554, 605-606 (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. 329-335, 554, 605-606 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).
  2. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary. Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-51995-6 , pp. 1090-1091.
  3. ↑ Georgios Sarantis-Aridas (ed.): Greek fairy tales. Insel, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-458-33931-0 , pp. 9-10.