![]() ![]() ![]() Now one day it chanced that the marchioness his wife was walking for her pleasure in the palace garden, and, being suddenly overcome by sleep, she sat down at the foot of a tree and slumber fell upon her. He was, forsooth, mighty anxious for progeny, but this bounty of heaven was denied to him. Once upon a time, now many years ago, there reigned in Monferrato a marquis called Lamberico, very puissant, both on account of his lordships and his great wealth, but wanting in children to carry on his name. And if a certain stepmother, of whom I am about to tell you, had used it with due moderation when she plotted wickedly to take another's life, she would not herself have been cut off by divine judgment in such fashion as I will now relate to you. It is praiseworthy, or even absolutely necessary, that a woman, of whatever state or condition she may be, should bear herself with prudence in each and every undertaking she may essay, for without prudence nothing will bring itself to a commendable issue. Afterward she, her hurts having been healed by a snake, returns happily to Ferrandino. ![]() Wild Sanctuary: The Handless Maiden (Link to an essay by Terri Windling with art by Jeanie Tomanek).īiancabella Giovanni Francesco Straparola, The Facetious Nightsīiancabella, the daughter of Lamberico, Marquis of Monferrato, is sent away by the stepmother of Ferrandino, King of Naples, in order that she may be put to death but the assassins only cut off her hands and put out her eyes.Anecdote of a Charitable Woman ( The 1001 Nights).The Daughter Who Was Promised to the Devil (Germany).The Girl without Hands (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - 1857).The Girl without Hands (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - 1812).The Girl without Hands (Italy / Austria).The Innkeeper's Beautiful Daughter (Italy).Penta the Handless (Giovanni Battista Basile, Il Pentamerone).Biancabella (Giovanni Francesco Straparola, The Facetious Nights).Ashliman's folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology. Folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 706 ![]()
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