Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
The most wide-spread and interesting class of Fairy Tales is the one in which a wife endeavors to behold the face of her husband, who comes to her only at night. She succeeds, but her husband disappears, and she is not reunited to him until she has expiated her indiscretion by...
The most wide-spread and interesting class of Fairy Tales is the one in which a wife endeavors to behold the face of her husband, who comes to her only at night. She succeeds, b...
5. Chapter 5The Italian people possess an inexhaustible store of legends which they have inherited from the Middle Ages. With the great mass of these stories--legends of the saints or local...
7. Chapter 7Until the Reformation, Europe was, by its religion and the culture growing out of it, a homogeneous state. Not only, however, did the legends of the Church find access to the pe...
4. Chapter 4The geographical situation of Italy and its commercial connections during the Middle Ages would lead us to expect a large foreign element in its popular tales. This foreign elem...
2. Chapter 2The fairy tales given in the last chapter belong to what may be called the great fairy tale cycles; that is, to extensive classes that are typical forms. It remains to notice in...
6. Chapter 6The tales we have thus far given, although they may count many young people among their auditors, are not distinctly children's stories. The few that follow are, and it is great...
8. Chapter 8[1] This story is a variant of Pitre, No. 17, _Marvizia_ (the name of the heroine who was as small as a _marva_, the mallow plant), in which the introduction is wanting. The her...
3. Chapter 3really belongs to the class of stories discussed in the present chapter. The story in general maybe termed "The Thankful Dead," from the most important episode in it. The hero s...
14. Chapter 14[1] A well-known literary version of this story is Sachetti, Nov. IV. Copious references to this popular story will be found in Oesterley's notes to Pauli's _Schimpf und Ernst_,...
10. Chapter 10[1] There are three Italian translations of the _Pantschatantra_, all of the XVI. century. Two, _Discorsi degli Animali_, by Angelo Firenzuola, 1548, and _La Filosofia Morale_,...
13. Chapter 13"A long one and a short one, Do you wish me to tell you a long one? This is the finger and this is the nail. Do you wish me to tell you a short one? This is the finger and this...
12. Chapter 12the Archangel and one of his devotees," of which there is a version in Gonz., No. 76, called, "The Story of Giuseppino." In the first version a child, Pippino, is sold by his pa...
9. Chapter 9[1] This story is found in the _Pent._ I. 10. In Schneller, No. 29, the king falls in love with a frog (from hearing its voice without seeing it) which is transformed by the fai...
11. Chapter 11[1] It is the LXXV. novel of the _Testo_ Gualteruzzi (Biagi, p. 108): _Qui conta come Domeneddio s' accompagno con un giullare_. The Lord once went in company with a jester. One...