Vardiello
Vardiello is a fairy tale . It is in Giambattista Basile 's Pentameron collection as the fourth story of the first day (I, 4).
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The mother is going out. Vardiello should take care of the mother hen that the eggs do not cool down and do not take the confectionery, it is poisonous. When the hen does not hear, he accidentally tosses her dead with a log and then sits down on the eggs to warm her. As a consolation, he roasts the hen. He is currently tapping wine in the cellar when cats are arguing about the roast, while the wine is running out. So that his mother doesn't notice, he sprinkles a sack of flour over it. Then he eats the nut candy and crawls into the oven. Now Vardiello is supposed to sell canvas, but not to anyone who talks too much, so in the end he leaves it with a plaster statue. When she doesn't pay, he throws a stone at her and finds a pot of gold in it. So that he doesn't divulge it, his mother keeps him busy with rain of figs and raisins from the roof. Once he tells about it and has to go to the madhouse.
Remarks
The beginning with the chicken comes from Girolamo Morlini's novella 49 De matre quae filium custoditum reliquit , the section about the plaster figure goes back to Hodscha Nasreddin . The end corresponds roughly to Schwänken of the AaTh 1381 type. Rudolf Schenda mentions Giulio Cesare Croces Bertoldino as an influence and Giufà in Gonzenbach's Sicilian Fairy Tales , No. 37, Giufà in Pitrès Fiabe, Novelle e Racconti popolari siciliane No. 190 and Giucca in Pitrès amendment popolari toscane no. 31, 32. Vardiello appeared in German in 1845 in first Kletkes fairytale hall 4. See, no.. at Grimm Frederick and Catherine , the alleged poison even the poor boy in the grave .
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. 50–55, 520–521, 578–579 (based on the Neapolitan text of 1634/36, completely and newly translated).