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Two Fables , front cover - 1986

Princess Busenschön is a short story and an art fairy tale for adults by the British writer Roald Dahl (1916–1990). It was first published in 1986 under the original title Princess Mammalia, together with another short story (The Princess and the Poacher) in the Two Fables collection . The German translation was published in 1989 in the collection The Princess and the Poacher , which contains four short stories by Roald Dahl.

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On the morning of her 17th birthday, Princess Busenschön looks at herself in the mirror and realizes that overnight she has transformed from an unattractive fat girl with a bacon neck into a radiant beauty. Her beauty is so radiant and dazzling in the truest sense of the word that her viewers have to squint their eyes to avoid going blind. The princess now uses this extraordinary beauty to gain power over the men who long for her and to control them. These come from all walks of life in the kingdom. They try to win the princess' favor through expensive gifts and invitations to extravagant love feasts in secluded places. After several incidents caused by male servants in the corridors of the royal palace, the king, who is usually a kind and merciful man, castrates all male servants . Princess Busenschön becomes more and more high-spirited and plays out her power over the non-castrated admirers, who ultimately become her puppets , ever stronger, more cruel and more brutal.

After all, the princess is so power-obsessed that she - her mother is no longer alive - wants to become queen as the eldest of seven daughters by murdering her father. When Princess Busenschön steps back on the balcony one evening as usual to turn the heads of the sexually excited men who are usually en masse below, this time there is only an old, dirty and ragged beggar with a stick. He has a long white beard and shoulder-length white hair. Despite initial rejection and threats from the princess, he gives her advice on how to safely kill an enemy: she should bury an oyster in a flower pot for 24 hours and then after digging up one droplet of the juice from the rotten and rotten oyster - on none Fall more - drizzle on each of the oysters to be served to the murdered person to eat; this would lead to death after terrible convulsions. The beggar then disappears without saying who he is.

On the princess’s 18th birthday, there are fresh oysters on every plate at the royal table. Before the guests arrive, the king goes around the table with the person responsible for the royal table, a eunuch , and asks him why he had the largest oysters placed on the king's plate. The table overseer replies that the king always gets the best delicacies. The king then has his plate exchanged for Princess Busenschön's plate on the grounds that she is the birthday child. At the birthday meal, the princess repeatedly asks her father how he would like the oysters. This states that the oysters would taste delicious. When asked by the king, Princess Busenschön also praised the excellent taste of her oysters. That same evening the princess becomes seriously ill and dies after terrible convulsions.

The next morning the king had his valet burn his white beard, white wig, ragged clothes and old cane , saying that it was not possible to celebrate costume parties while the court was in mourning.

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  1. ↑ Sturrock, p. 627 and Solomon, p. 217