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A 1634 Italian tale about lizard fairies and an ungrateful goat gets a full retelling and breakdown.
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In this episode
- The full story of Goat-Face from Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone
- What lizard fairies actually do in 17th-century Italian folklore
- How ingratitude drives the plot of this centuries-old tale
- Context for one of the earliest printed European fairy tale collections
About this episode
From Italy! Lizard fairies and ungrateful goats.Goat-Face from Tale of Tales/Entertainment for Little Ones, aka Stories from Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile in 1634 (1st Volume) and 1636 (2nd Volume).
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About Folklorica
Introducing… Folklorica! A podcast about stories hosted by two people who really like hearing, reading and even telling, you guessed it, stories. We’re your hosts Clayton Steacker and Maggie Boles. We are amateur ethnographers. Gifted googlers.
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