Sapia Liccarda

The wise Liccarda ( Neapolitan Original: Sapia Leccarda ) is a fairy tale ( Aath 879 ). It is in Giambattista Basile's collection Pentamerone as the fourth story of the third day (III, 4).

Content

A merchant is at parting his daughters rings that are stained, if they make him shame. The two older to get Prince of opposite, only Liccarda, the youngest is virtuous and rants. This leaves only goals of the third prince alone, because it includes in the room. The pregnant woman make her case, she would have them for the sake of children's health bread, later pick pears from the palace where he expected it. But she escaped him, and he will sit in the pear tree. She puts the Prince towards the babies, only a stone gates. The father scolds when he sees the rings that keep the prince to his daughters, and he happily married all. Liccarda sets goals a sugar doll to bed, where he leaves out his anger with a knife and drinking their blood. When he looked back then, it shows itself, and they are reconciled.

Notes

Rejected applicants and sister envy are as in II, 3 Viola. In contrast to I, 6 The ash cat father who loses faith, but Kluge saves her life. According to Rudolf Schenda the fairy tale in Italy remained popular, with 35 modern variants at Cirese / Serafini, an oral Fabio Mugnaini 1983/84, also # 50 Mazzasprunìgliola - ruscus sprigs in Schendas Tales of Tuscany ( The Tales of World Literature, 1996).

The plot resembles King Eisenhütl by the Brothers Grimm in 1815 listed for their fairy tales, but never printed. In Grimm Note on The Frog King or Iron Henry a cloth occurs, which is black with infidelity.