The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa

The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa

Infobox Folk tale
Folk_Tale_Name = The Firebird and Princess Vasilia


Image_Caption =
AKA =
Aarne-Thompson Grouping = 531
Mythology =
Country = Russia
Region =
Origin_Date =
Published_In = "Narodnye russkie skazki"
Related = "Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful" "Corvetto" "King Fortunatus's Golden Wig" "The Mermaid and the Boy"

The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in "Narodnye russkie skazki".

It is Aarne-Thompson type 531. Other tales of this type include "Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful", "Corvetto", "King Fortunatus's Golden Wig", and "The Mermaid and the Boy". [Heidi Anne Heiner, [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/other.html "Tales Similar to Firebird"] ] Another, literary variant is Madame d'Aulnoy's "La Belle aux cheveux d'or", or "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks". [Paul Delarue, "The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales", p 363, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956]

ynopsis

A royal huntsman found a feather of the firebird and, though his horse warned him against it, picked it up. The king demanded that he bring him the bird. The huntsman went to his horse, who told him to demand that measures of corn be spread over the fields. He did, and the firebird came to eat and was caught. He brought it to the king, who said that because he had done that, now he must bring him Princess Vasilisa to be his bride. The horse had him demand food and drink for the journey, and a tent with a golden top. With it, they set out to a lake where the princess was rowing. He set up the tent and set out the food. The princess came and ate, and drinking foreign wine, she became drunk and slept. He carried her off.

Princess Vasilisa refused to marry without her wedding gown, from the bottom of the sea. The king sent the huntsman for it. He rode the horse to the sea, where the horse found a great crab and threatened to crush it. The crab asked the horse to spare it and summoned all the crabs to fetch the wedding gown.

Princess Vasilisa refused to marry without the king ordering the huntsman to bathe in boiling water. The huntsman went to his horse, who charmed his body. He bathed in the boiling water and became handsome. The king went to bathe in the same water, and died. The people took the huntsman as king instead, and he married the princess.

ee also

*The Gifts of the Magician
*Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf
*How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon
*The Sister of the Sun

References

External links

* [http://www.widesky.org/stories_poetry/fire.html "The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa"]


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