How the Devil Married Three Sisters

How the Devil Married Three Sisters is an Italian fairy tale found in Thomas Frederick Crane's Italian Popular Tales (1885). It was collected and originally published in German as "Der Teufel heirathet drei Schwestern" by Widter and Wolf in 1866.[1][2]

It is classified as Aarne-Thompson tale type 311, "The heroine rescues herself and her sisters".[3][4]

Italo Calvino's retelling, entitled Silver Nose in his Italian Folktales (1956) is a composite, with its skeletal plot based on a Piedmont version featuring the devil-husband with a silver nose, fleshed out using variants from other localities.[3][5]

  1. ^ Crane (1885), pp. 78-, 344 note 27
  2. ^ Widter & Wolf (1866), Volkmärchen aus Venetien Nr. 11, pp.148-155
  3. ^ a b Bacchilega, Cristina (1997), Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies, University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 109–111 and 176–177 (note 11), ISBN 0812216830
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference ashliman-web was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Martin tr., Calvino (2013), pp. 26–30, 717 (endnote to Ch. 9)