Wicked fairy godmother
Karabossa or Carabosse is the name of a mythical creature, which in particularly in the 17-18. Century popular French and English fairy tale plays a role. The French word means bosse, bump, bump '.
Literary Figure
Marie -Catherine d' Aulnoy ( syn. Baronne d' Aulnoy, Madame d' Aulnoy ) ( 1651-1705 ) was a French writer who was known for her fairy tales. Here, their stories were not really intended for children, but rather to read aloud in front of adults in the Paris salons of the time. In her fairy La Princesse Printanière (English Princess Mayblossom ) the young Princess Spring is coming by the evil fairy Carabosse in many difficulties.
In 1764 his first published novel about the adventures of Don Sylvio Wieland wrote "There are known dimensions zweyerley kinds of fairies, good and evil. Neat way are those the most beautiful ladies of the world, and these are the ugliest monstrosities that you can imagine. Among the latter is one of the highest Karabosse. In the fable La Princesse printannière she is portrayed as an ugly beast, with crooked legs, a large hump, squinting eyes, a coal-black skin, and a very short, thick body with such a big head that her knee nudged his chin. She arrived in a pushed by Zwey ugly little dwarfs wheelbarrows here in order to wear the Queen Mother Princess printannière, the wet-nurse; and all the follies which committed this good princess in the episode, with all therefore springing accidents, were effects of the negative answer which had been given such a lovable nurse. "
In Pierer 's Universal Lexicon 100 years after Wieland's novel Carabosse as "... cross-eyed, black skin, with crooked legs, large bumps, short thick body and a very large head so that her knees abut the chin ... " means.
In the Sleeping Beauty ballet with music by Tchaikovsky, which is based on the fairy tale La belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault in 1696, is one of the main characters Carabosse.
Source
- Christoph M. Wieland: The Adventures of Don Sylvio of Rosalva, Reclam Stuttgart, 2001, p 29
- Madame d' Aulnoy: La Princesse Printanière, Paris 1697