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Basile High School is a public upper-elementary, junior and senior high school (grades 5–12) in Basile, Louisiana. ... the Swine Festival parade in Basile, ...
The stories in the Pentamerone were collected by Basile and published posthumously in two volumes by his sister Adriana in Naples, Italy, in 1634 and 1636 under the pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis. These stories were later adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm , the latter making extensive, acknowledged use of Basile's collection.
Madame d'Aulnoy greatly expanded the tale. Her tale is sometimes translated as The Wild Boar [4] [5] or Prince Wild Boar. [6]A queen who desperately wants to have a child dreams that three fairies talk about giving her a child: one gives her a handsome, amiable, and loved son; the second gives her to see the son succeed at everything; and the third muttered something under her breath.
Other important holidays were the feasts of St Patrick (Gwyl Badric) on 17 March; St. Quiricus (Gwyl Giric) on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh Gwyl Ieuan y Moch – St. John of the Swine – as it was the day the pigs were turned out into the woods to forage through the winter [2]) on 29 August; St Michael (Gwyl ...
Pigs in the City – "Singing" pigs. Pigs in the City is a public art initiative coordinated by Uptown Lexington, Inc., [1] a non-profit organization created to revitalize the downtown (or locally called "uptown") area of Lexington. [2]
The Flea is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] It combines Aarne-Thompson-Uther types 857, "The Louse-Skin" [ 2 ] and ATU 653, "The Four Skillful Brothers".
The Young Slave is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 709, Snow White; other variants include Bella Venezia and Myrsina. [2] The tale is based in Italy, and is often cited as one of the first Snow White stories to exist.
"Petrosinella" is a Neapolitan fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his collection of fairy tales in 1634, Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales), or Pentamerone. [1] It is Aarne–Thompson type 310 "the Maiden in the Tower", of which the best known variant is "Rapunzel", and it is the earliest recorded variant of this tale known to ...