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The Raven (Italian Fairy Tale)
The Raven is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''. The story is a man winning a bride for his brother the king, and then having to protect the couple from perils that he can not tell anyone about, without being turned to stone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 516.Paul Delarue, ''The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales'', p 365, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956 Others of this type are ''Trusty John'',D.L. Ashliman,The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"/ref> and ''Father Roquelaure''. It is an unusual variant, in that most tales feature the main character as a servant rather than a brother.Stith Thompson, ''The Folktale'', p 111, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 Synopsis A king named Milluccio once saw a dead raven on stone, and fell in love with the thought of a wife as black as the raven, as red as its blood, and as white as the stone. It affected his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance (love), romance". Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giambattista Basile
Giambattista Basile (February 1566 – February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. He is chiefly remembered for writing the collection of Neapolitan fairy tales known as ''Il Pentamerone.'' Biography Born in Giugliano to a Neapolitan middle-class family, Basile was a soldier and courtier to various Italian princes, including the doge of Venice. According to Benedetto Croce he was born in 1575, while other sources have February 1566. In Venice he began to write poetry. Later he returned to Naples to serve as a courtier under the patronage of Don Marino II Caracciolo, prince of Avellino, to whom he dedicated his idyll ''L’Aretusa'' (1618). By the time of his death he had reached the rank of "count" ''Conte di Torrone''. Basile's earliest known literary production is from 1604 in the form of a preface to the Vaiasseide of his friend the Nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentamerone
The ''Pentamerone'', subtitled ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' ("The Tale of Tales"), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. Background The stories in the ''Pentamerone'' were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy, in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. These stories were later adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the latter making extensive, acknowledged use of Basile's collection. Examples of this are versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. While other collections of stories have included stories that would be termed fairy tales, his work is the first collection in which all the stories fit in that single category. He did not transcribe them from the oral tradition as a modern collector would, instead writing them in Neapolitan, and in many respects was the first writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trusty John
"Trusty John", "Faithful John", "Faithful Johannes", or "John the True" (german: Der treue Johannes) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1819 (KHM 6). Andrew Lang included it in ''The Blue Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 516. Others of this type are ''Father Roquelaure'' and ''The Raven''. Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson catalogued about 500 tales under this type, of which over 200 were Irish, and the remainder, from the rest of Europe and European colonies in America. Such tales include ''In Love with a Statue'', ''How to find out a True Friend'', ''The Man of Stone'', and ''Amis et Amiles''. Origin The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the second edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' in 1819. Their source was the German storyteller Dorothea Viehmann, from the village of Niederzwehren near Kassel. Synopsis In some variants, a king on his deathbed orders his servant, Trusty John, not to let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Roquelaure
Father Roquelaure is a French fairy tale collected by Achille Millien. It is a type 516 tale in the Aarne-Thompson classification system.Paul Delarue, ''The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales'', p 365, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956 Others of this type are ''Trusty John''D.L. Ashliman,The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"/ref> and ''The Raven''. Synopsis A widowed queen urges her son, Emilien, to marry, but he does not. She dies. One day, he sees a portrait of the Princess Emilienne and falls in love. The portrait painter tells him that the princess is kept confined in a tower by a fairy. Emilien confides in a trusted servant, Jean, and after Jean makes secret preparations, they set out to find the princess. They take turns keeping watch at night. While the prince sleeps, Jean hears voices talking. One is of Father Roquelaure, who tells how Prince Emilien's task of finding the princess will be hard. He will have to rub the wheels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Love With A Statue
In Love with a Statue is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in his 1885 book ''Italian Popular Tales''. Synopsis A king had two sons. The younger one fell in love with a statue. His older brother set out to see if he could find a woman like it. He bought a dancing mouse and a singing bird on the way, and saw a beautiful girl, exactly like the statue, appeared at a window when a beggar knocked on the door. He posed as a merchant of looking glasses and lured her onto his ship, and sailed off with her. While he was sailing, a large black bird told him that the mouse, the bird, and the lady would all turn his brother's head but if he said anything, he would turn to stone. The older prince showed his brother the mouse and bird, but killed them; to keep him from killing the lady, the younger prince had him thrown into prison and, when he would not speak, condemned to death. When it was time to execute, the older brother told the story and turned to stone. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Find Out A True Friend
How to find out a True Friend is an Italian fairy tale collected by Laura Gonzenbach in ''Sicilianische Märchen''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Crimson Fairy Book''.Andrew Lang, ''The Crimson Fairy Book''"How to find out a True Friend"/ref> Synopsis A childless king and queen pledged to St. James that if they had a son, he would make a pilgrimage on his eighteenth birthday. They had a son. When he was twelve, his father died. When his eighteenth birthday grew near, the queen grieved over the thought of not seeing him for a year; she tried to put her son off, but when his consolations for her pretended causes did not work, she had to reveal the truth. He assured her that he would return. The queen gave him apples and told him that he needed a companion, but he should invite any prospect to eat with him, and then he should cut an apple into two unequal parts and reject anyone who did not take the smaller. He met three young men, each of whom also claimed to be going on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Of Stone
The Man of Stone (''Omul de piatră'') is a Romanian fairy tale collected by Petre Ispirescu in ''Legende sau basmele românilor''.Julia Collier Harris, Rea Ipcar, ''The Foundling Prince & Other Tales: Translated from the Roumanian of Petre Ispirescu'', p 117, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York 1917 Synopsis A king and queen had no children. A black man or Arab came to the king and offered a potion that would make the queen pregnant. The cook prepared it and, not knowing its powers, tasted some before coming to the queen. Both the cook and the queen became pregnant and each gave birth to a son. When the prince was grown, the king had to go to war. He gave the keys to the castle and told him not to go into the door locked by the golden key. The prince went into it and found a spy glass that showed him the beautiful Princess Kiralina, and he fell so in love with her that he was sick and near dying. The king sent messengers but her father refused to let them marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Fairy Tales
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Fictional Birds
This list of fictional birds is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. Ducks, penguins and birds of prey are not included here, and are listed separately at list of fictional ducks, list of fictional penguins, and list of fictional birds of prey. Struthioniformes (ostriches) Casuariformes (cassowaries and emu) Apterygiformes (kiwis) Anseriformes (waterfowl) See also ''List of fictional ducks'' and ''List of fictional ducks in animation'' Galliformes (landfowl) Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos) Columbiformes (pigeons and doves) Cuculiformes (cuckoos and roadrunners) Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, hummingbirds, and swifts) Nyctibiidae (potoos) Gruiformes (cranes, rails, and allies) Charadriiformes (gulls, terns, auks, and waders) Gaviiformes (loons) Sphenisciformes (penguins) See ''List of fictional penguins'' Procellariiformes (albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, and storm-petrels) Ciconiiformes (storks) Pelecaniforme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
