Riquet with the Tuft

Riquet with the tuft ( original French title: Riquet à la houppe ) is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault. It appeared from 1697 in the Contes de ma Mère l' Oye collection.

Content

A fairy gives the ugly Riquet with the tuft great Spirit, who also goes to the one he loves once. The older princess of the neighboring kingdom is stupid, but beautiful, what the fairy also expands upon him that she liked. But it loses its rank at court soon to the ugly but spirited twin sister. On a sad walk in the woods she meets Riquet with the tuft, which she already knows of images and gives her a year to marry him. She promises it and immediately leads a spirited conversation with him. At court all marvel at it, can hardly decide before suitors soon. When she walks into the woods so again, she sees beneath the forest floor cooks the wedding Riquet with the tuft prepare, because tomorrow is the year. When he goes to meet her, she wants to talk only turned out, but he convinces her that he will thereby also beautiful. The narrator does not specify whether it was really the magic of fairy or love, and ends with the moral: love is beautiful and wise, and weighs heavier than natural beauty.

Notes

Perrault fairy tale invented the well itself, but may have found excitation at Straparola and Basile. Doris Maier thistle -Haas notes, he may loose here most of didactic narrative, bring longer dialogues and conveys courtly ideals of his time. The stereotypical praise of spirit and love is like a satire of bourgeois values ​​. For ugly with frivolous promises of marriage of the princess see in Straparola king pig, in Grimm's Fairy Tales KHM 1 The Frog King or Iron Henry, KHM 108 Hans My Hedgehog.

TV

• Fabled - tales from around the world (Original Title: Classic Tales ), Anglo- Australian television series for children, 2008-2009, Episode: Riquet with the tuft ( German Original Air Date 2012).