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Fairy Tales
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NEWHISTORY
HISTORY
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Ruth
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F A I R Y TA L E S
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F A I RY T A L E S
A New History
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Published by
State University of New York Press, Albany
Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
Fairy tales : a new history / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-2523-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-2524-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Fairy tales—History and
criticism. I. Title.
GR550.B648 2009
398.209--dc22
2008028301
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
NOTES 117
INDEX 145
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This study has gained from the participation of friends and col-
leagues. First my thanks to Nicholas Stargardt and Anthony
Smith of Magdalen College, Oxford, for hosting the presentation
of the central chapters of this book in a series of lectures in that
congenial and stimulating place; to Maria Tatar for commenting
on the theoretical thrust of the opening chapter; to Willem de
Blécourt for reading the Grimm chapter and making the Wild
girls the right age; to Lewis Seifert for an insightful reading of
the French chapter; to Suzanne Magnanini for opening my eyes
to that strangely tantalizing world of Neapolitan Baroque litera-
ture; to Nancy Canepa for lending her expertise in Basile schol-
arship; and to the international journal of folk narrative
research, Fabula, for its permission to incorporate portions of my
article, “Fairy Tale Origins, Fairy Tale Dissemination, and Folk
Narrative Theory” into chapters 1 and 5; to Karl Bottigheimer,
always my first reader; to SUNY Press’s anonymous readers for
suggesting points to clarify and expand; and finally to members
of the Stony Brook Interlibrary Loan office, who year after year
make this kind of research possible, with special thanks to
Donna Sammis for constant support.
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ONE
WHY A N E W H I S T O RY
OF F A I RY T A L E S ?
INTRODUCTION
1
2 FAIRY TALES
LITERARY ANALYSIS
Folk Tales
Folk tales differ from fairy tales in their structure, their cast
of characters, their plot trajectories, and their age. Brief, and
with linear plots, folk tales reflect the world and the belief sys-
tems of their audiences.1 Taking their characters from that famil-
iar world, folk tales are typically peopled with husbands and
wives, peasants, thieving rascals, or an occasional doctor, lawyer,
priest, or preacher. In a typical folk tale plot, one person makes
off with another person’s money, goods, or honor. More to the
point, a very large proportion of folk tales don’t have a happy
ending. Marital strife looms large, because typical folk tales that
include a married couple are not about the joys of getting mar-
ried, but about the difficulties of being married.
Folk tales are easy to follow and easy to remember, in part
because they deal with familiar aspects of the human condition,
like the propensity to build castles in the air. Take, for example,
the ancient tale of a peasant who had a jug of honey and who
dreamed of selling it profitably and being able to buy a flock of
chickens. He imagined he’d earn enough from selling the result-
ing eggs to buy a piglet. When it grew up, it would bear piglets of
its own that he could sell for even more money. As is typical for
a folk tale, the peasant expected his profits to mount steadily so
that he could eventually buy a goat—or a sheep—or a cow.
Finally, the daydreaming peasant imagined that he’d build a
house, marry, and have a son, whom—in his reverie—he imag-
ined he’d beat when he misbehaved. Flailing about him, the
peasant smashed the precious honey jug—and with that, he
destroyed his dreams of wealth. Such an ending typifies many
folk tales2 and has long existed, at least since it was documented
nearly 1500 years ago in the Indian Panchatantra. The story’s wry
acceptance of sad consequences and limited possibilities for its
poor hero fit it into a category of anecdotal and joke folk tales
classified as ATU 1430. There are even folktales in which a
swineherd marries a princess or in which a goosegirl marries a
prince, as in Tale Types 850 and 870, but on close examination
these apparently fairy tale endings have no magic about them.
WHY A N E W H I S T O RY OF F A I RY T A L E S ? 5
Tales of Magic
We have now separated fairy tales out from folk tales and general
tales of magic, but there remains one other theoretical distinc-
tion, one that is highly problematic. The widespread belief that
an unlettered folk created fairy tales has led to the category of
folk fairy tales. Sometimes other names are used: real fairy tales,
pure fairy tales, genuine fairy tales, or uncontaminated fairy tales.
Each of these words implies that fairy tales were created within
an oral (“pure” or “genuine”) culture and were transmitted
through oral cultures as “folk fairy tales” until they were written
down by later authors, who collected them from the folk (but
“contaminated” them in so doing). Phrases like “write down”
and “collect” strongly suggest an act of appropriation, as Marxist
critics would express it, a kind of intellectual piracy or theft from
an unlettered teller by a literate author. Scholars’ utilization of
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