The Goat-faced Girl

The goat face ( Neapolitan Original: La facce de crapa ) is a fairy tale ( Aath 710). It is in Giambattista Basile's collection Pentamerone as the eighth story of the first day (I, 8).

Content

A poor farm workers being forced by a fairy in the form of a lizard to surrender his youngest daughter Renzolla. But she gives him a dowry for the eleven others, Renzolla draws on the pomp and makes them known to a king who has lost his way in the forest. As Renzolla but without a word of thanks pulls ahead with him, she missed her a goat face. Why does the king they spin with a servant flax and raise a dog, but she throws both out the window. The fee must help. As Renzolla she finally asks for forgiveness for their rudeness, they can drive up it in a splendid carriage, so that the king receive gladly.

Notes

The fairy tale type could reach back into the early antiquity according to Rudolf Schenda and was Christianized later. Usually the poor father met the monster at work, there is a conflict between real and sensual world and the immature child. At the end, Basile's morality, "that it always brings benefits when you appear polite. " Schenda calls later versions: From the Pathenkinde of St. Francis of Paula in Gonzenbach, No. 20, Domenico Comparetti La Barbuta (1875, No. 3 ), a variant on Cirese / Serafini from the 19th century. Thomas Keightley translated the text into English in 1828, Wolff from there into German ( mythology of fairies and elves, Part 2, Weimar 1828, pp. 307-318 ). He appeared in Kletkes tale hall of 1845 as No. 6, 1846 came Liebrecht translation. See in Grimm Marie child to surrender the child ( Jephtha motif) also Rapunzel, The girl without hands, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing springing lark, The King of the Golden Mountain, Hans My Hedgehog, The Mermaid in the pond, the forbidden door Fitcher bird, Bluebeard, The murder castle.