The Months

The months ( Neapolitan Original: Li mise ) is a fairy tale (see Aath 480, 563). It is in Giambattista Basile's collection Pentamerone as the second story of the fifth day (V, 2).

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The poor Lise gets from his rich brother Cianne from nothing. Desperate, he wanders away and meets at an inn twelve young men. One asks him what he thought of this weather and the infamous month of March. Lise answers gottergeben friendly and gets to you a box, with whom he could ask for what he needs, because the man was March itself So Lise travels in a warm chair with straps, good food, comfortable night camps and in the noble suit home to Cianne. The races now also go to the men, but blasphemes so that March gives him a whip. At home he tries it out and is beaten so that his brother must intervene with the box and comforts him, finally he has enough for both. But Cianne speaks only good of all.

Notes

Rudolf Schenda refers to tales of March and his clashes with the shepherds and Italian proverbs like " pazzo Marzo " ( March is crazy), also personifications of the 12 months in frescoes of the Renaissance. He finds parallels among others in Ilg Maltese fairy tale. The first German translation stand in Kletkes tale hall of 1845 in place of 7

See in Basile III, 10 The three fairies, later Perrault's The Fairies in Grimm The Three Little Men in the forest, to whip also table which will cover, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack, The devil and his grandmother.

The illustrated collection of fairy tales of Europe The oldest fairy tales of Karel Dvorak 1983 clearly draws on this.