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From the Beast to the Blonde

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by Marina Warner


  Anguissola, Sofonisba: The Artist’s Three Sisters … 172

  animals: as bridegrooms 279–80; Cartesian views of 145–6; as familiars 143, 145, 157, 204, 291, 356, 356; metamorphosis xvii, 125, 142, 145, 204–5, 286, 291, 299, 308, 353–8; re-evaluation of 280; talking 142; see also bears; donkeys; goats; rams; wolves; hair

  Anjou, René d’: Le Livre du cueur d’amours espris (The Book of the Heart Smitten with Love) 45

  Anna (prophetess) 84–6, 85

  Anne, St xx, 65, 79, 80, 81–4, 84, 85–6, 87, 87–90, 89, 91–2, 94, 95, 158

  Anne of Austria, Queen of France 81, 82, 83, 92

  Anne, Duchesse de Bretagne 82, 89, 89

  Anthony, Saint 121

  Anthony of Padua, Saint 139, 139

  anti-Semitism 4, 71, 98, 123, 140

  Antonisz, Cornelisz. 26, 32

  Aphrodite 51, 57, 363, 406

  Apollo 10, 10, 67, 72, 75, 259

  Apollonius of Tyre 326, 332, 349

  Apuleius, Lucius 19, 145, 172, 353, 362; The Golden Ass xviii, 1, 14, 16, 18, 143–4, 145, 148, 259, 315; ‘Cupid and Psyche’ xviii, 14, 18, 142, 148, 209, 218, 223–4, 273–6, 277, 278, 284, 288, 318, 326, 364

  Arabian Nights, The xix, 17, 24, 166, 274, 396

  Aristides of Miletus 14

  Aristotle 58; Politics 29

  asses see donkeys

  astrological signs 374, 376–7, 376, 379–80

  Atwood, Margaret 194, 270

  Aucassin et Nicolette xviii, 173–4

  Auden, W. H.: The Rake’s Progress 57

  audiences, changes in 213–14, 237, 297, 409–10, 411, 412

  Augustus, Emperor 67, 69, 153

  Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baronne d’ xi, xiii, 24, 163–4, 165, 166, 172, 232, 233–34, 277, 284–6, 293, 294, 307, 333, 411; ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 290, 299; ‘La Belle aux cheveux d’or’ (Beauty with the Golden Hair) 362, 363; ‘Bellebelle, ou le Chevalier Fortuné’ 135; ‘Blue Bird’ see L’Oiseau bleu; ‘La Chatte blanche’ (The White Cat) 25, 166, 240, 354; Contes des fées (Tales of the Fairies) xi, 165, 234; ‘Le Dauphin’ (The Dolphin) 288; Don Fernand de Tolède 252; Don Gabriel Ponce de Léon 162–3; ‘The Hind in the Wood’ 166; ‘L’Ile de la félicité’ (The Isle of Happiness) 76, 161–2, 286; Memoirs 165, 285–6; ‘Le Mouton’ (The Ram) 286–8; ‘Le Nain jaune’ (The Yellow Dwarf); 166, 234, 252–3, 287, 288; Nouveaux contes des fées 234; ‘L’Oiseau bleu’ (The Blue Bird) 166–7, 232, 354; ‘Prince Marcassin’ (Prince Wild Boar)288; ‘Queen Mab …’ 78; ‘Le Serpentin vert’ (The Great Green Worm) 25, 134, 232, 288–90; ‘The White Cat’ see La Chatte blanche; ‘The Yellow Dwarf’ see Le Nain jaune

  Auneuil, Louise, Comtesse d’ 232; ‘La Tyrannie des fées détruite’ 232–3

  B

  ‘Babes in the Wood’ 211

  Baburen, Dirck van: The Procuress 46–7; Pl. 5

  Balaam and his ass 137–9, 141, 142

  Baldung Grien, Hans 145, 356, 374; Creation of Woman 356–7

  Barbara, Saint 339, 343, 343–4, 368

  Barbari, Jacopo de’: Satyr Family 359

  barrenness (infertility) 81–2, 83, 84, 220, 221–2

  Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Bartholomew de Glanville): On the Property of Things 58–9

  Bartók, Béla: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (opera) 268–9

  Basile, Giambattista 172, 322, 346; ‘La Gatta Cenerentola’ (The Cinderella Cat) 205–6, 207, 356; ‘L’Orsa’ (The She-Bear) 283, 320–1, 345, 356; II Pentamerone (Lo cunto de li cunti) 17, 127, 148–50, 152, 222, 223, 274, 320, 348, 378; ‘Sapia Liccarda’ 251, 252; ‘Sole, Luna e Talia’ 220–1

  Baubô (Iambe) 150, 151, 152

  Baudelaire, Charles 296

  Baum, L. Frank 411

  beards 242, 246, 358, 360, 361, 371

  Beardsley, Aubrey 244, 382

  bears 124, 298, 298, 299, 300–5, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306–7, 311–12, 356–7; she-bears 354, 356; teddy bears 305–6; see also Basile ‘L’Orsa’; ‘Goldilocks’

  ‘Bearskin’ see Murat: ‘Peau d’ours’

  Beaumanoir, Philippe de: La Manékine 348

  Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de 292–4, 394; ‘La Belle et la bête’ 277, 291–2, 294, 295, 297; Le Magasin des enfants 292

  ‘Beauty and the Beast’ xix, xx, 14, 15, 24, 65, 83, 145, 209, 210, 214, 217, 219, 224, 232, 234–5, 240, 259, 272, 273–4, 275, 276–7, 278–81, 279, 280, 290–2, 294–7, 299–300, 303, 307–18, 314, 316, 325, 345, 354, 365, 405

  Beer, Gillian 278, 425

  Benjamin, Walter: ‘The Storyteller’ 22, 25, 395

  Bérard, Christian 295

  Berenice, Queen of Egypt 367

  Berger, John 162, 215

  Bergerac, Cyrano de 55

  Bernard, Catherine 168, 254, 255, 277, 281; Inès de Cordoue 253; ‘Riquet à la Houppe’ 253–4, 254

  Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint 367

  Bertha, Queen 125, 126–7, 128

  ‘Berthe aus grant pié’ see Adenet le Roi

  Berti, Carolina Coronedi 256

  Bettelheim, Bruno 417; The Uses of Enchantment 203, 212–13, 222, 246, 262, 312–13, 317, 361, 386, 413

  Biblia pauperum 83, 137

  Bibliothèque Bleue 171, 243, 326

  Bidpai (Pilpay): Panchatantra xvii, 165, 274

  Bilqis (see also Sheba, Queen of) 111, 116

  birds 56, 122, 125, 255; see also feet, webbed; geese; ibis; ostriches; storks

  Blaise, Saint 339

  ‘Blonda’ 370, 381

  blondeness see hair, blonde

  ‘Bluebeard’ xii, xx, xiv, 15, 24, 240, 241–7, 242, 245, 249, 250, 251, 255, 256–7, 257, 259/, 336, 372, 405

  ‘Blue Bird, The’ see d’Aulnoy: ‘L’Oiseau bleu’

  Bly, Robert: Iron John 417

  Boccaccio, Giovanni x, 17, 119, 179, 221

  Boileau, Nicolas 169, 170, 183

  Boland, Eavan: ‘In a Time of Violence’ 411; ‘What we lost’ 409

  Borowczyk, Walerian: Blanche (film) 410

  Bosch, Hieronymus: The Prodigal Son 57

  Bosse, Abraham 60, 60

  Botticelli, Sandro: The Mystic Nativity Pl. 17

  Bottigheimer, Ruth 208; Bad Girls and Bold Boys 394

  Bourdichon, Jean: Les Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne 88, 89

  Boutet de Monvel, Maurice 369

  Brant, Sebastian: Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools) 56, 357, 357

  Brentano, Clemens 191

  Breton, André 327, 382

  Bridget of Sweden, Saint 219, 367; see Pl. 17

  broadsheets 39, 40–1, 42

  Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre 277

  Broumas, Olga: ‘Cinderella’ 210

  Bulwer, John: Chirologia 90–1, 91

  Burton, Tim: Edward Scissorhands 277, 313, 317

  Byatt, A. S.: (tr). ‘The Great Green Worm’ 288 (see d’Aulnoy: Serpentin vert); Possession 417

  C

  Cabinet des fées, Le (The Fairy Library) xii, 162, 280, 281, 290, 379

  Calvino, Italo 209, 352, 413–14, 416, 417; Fiàbe Italiane (Tales) xiv, 16, 377–8, 413; Il naso d’argento’ (Silver Nose) 256–7, 271; Il Sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Nest of Spiders) 413

  Calypso 7

  Campion, Jane: The Piano (film) 405–6, 407

  cannibalism 259–60, 302

  Čapek, Karel 17, 312, 411, 418; RUR 17

  ‘Caquet des femmes, Le’ (print) 39

  Caquets de l’accouchée, Les (Chatter at the Lying-in) 39

  Caravaggio (Michelangelo da) 86

  Carrington, Leonora 277, 382, 383–4, 383, 385; ‘As they rode along the edge …’ 383–4; ‘The Débutante’ 384; Little Francis 384; ‘The Oval Lady’ 384

  Carter, Angela xi, xix, xx, 193, 194, 195, 195, 196–7, 270, 277, 290, 296, 308, 310, 417, 418; American Ghosts 193; ‘Ashputtle’ 205; The Bloody Chamber 193, 195, 308; ‘The Company of Wolves’ 308, 309–10; ‘The Courtship of Mr. Lyon’ 309; Fireworks 193; Heroes and Villains 195; The Infernal Desire Machines of D
r Hoffman 195; The Magic Toyshop 193, 308, 405; Nights at the Circus 193, 194, 195; The Passion of New Eve 194; The Sadeian Woman 195; ‘The Tiger’s Bride’ 309, 310; ‘The Werewolf 309; Wise Children 193, 195, 197

  Cassandra 75

  Catherine of Alexandria, St 339, 368

  cats 145, 157, 291, 356

  Caxton, William 100, 103

  censorship 411

  Chadwick, Helen: Loop My Loop Pl.26

  Charlemagne, Emperor 81, 125, 126, 372

  Charles I, King of England 373

  Chartres Cathedral: sculptures 108, 137

  Chastenay, Victorine de 24

  Chaucer, Geoffrey 17, 363; ‘Man of Lawe’s Tale’ 126, 127, 326, 351, 391; ‘Patient Griselda’ 127, 391; ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ 386

  Chekhov, Anton: The Three Sisters 230 childbirth: by caesarean 62, 263; death in 213, 262, 263, 265; patron saint of 260; and stork 54, 62–3; see also barrenness

  Choisy, François-Timoléon, Abbé de 135

  Chosroes, King of the Persians 102, 103, 105

  Christ jesus 4, 9, 25, 83–6, 88, 90, 92–3, 93, 98–100, 373

  christenings 33, 37

  Christianity: and fairy tales 76–7; and the Queen of Sheba 98–9, 100–2, 104–5, 107, 108–9; and Sibyl 4, 9–10, 70–4, 76, 98, 107; and silence 29, 30, 44; and symbolism 366–7; see also Inquisition

  Christina, Saint 342–3

  ‘Cinderella’ xii, xiv, xvi, xx, 14, 65, 128, 148, 200, 201, 202–5, 204, 206–7, 208, 209, 210, 213–15, 216–17, 216, 219, 224, 225, 227, 237, 247, 265, 312, 321, 324, 326, 345, 347, 348, 361–2, 365, 366, 386; Pis. 1, 23, 24

  Circe 7, 299, 399

  Cixous, Hélène, and Clément, Catherine: La Jeune née (The Newly Born Woman) 150–2

  Clement of Alexandria 151

  Clements, Ron 403

  Cleopatra 98, 368

  clysters 59, 59–61, 60, 61

  Cocteau, Jean 351; La Belle et la bête (film) 259, 272, 292, 295–7

  Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 36

  colours 242–3, 363–4, 366 see also hair, blonde

  commedia dell’arte 54–5, 158

  Constantine I, Emperor 68, 69, 102, 103, 107

  Contes de la cigogne (Tales of the Stork) 52

  Coover, Robert 194, 417

  Corneille, Pierre 277

  Cox, Marian 326

  Crane, Walter 299; ‘Bluebeard’ 244, 245; ‘Goldilocks’ 302, 303; ‘My Mother’ 231; ‘The Yellow Dwarf 253

  Crowquill, Alfred 244, 246, 257

  Cruikshank, George 160, 170, 190, 193, 208, 216–17, 247, 347

  ‘Cupid and Psyche’ see Apuleius, Lucius

  D

  Dada movement 374, 375

  Dale, Antonius van 76, 77, 78

  Dalziel Brothers: Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales 157

  Dame Trot 156, 236

  Danckertsz, Cornelius: engraving 60, 61

  Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy 289, 366

  Day, Josette 272, 295, 351

  death 263–4; and cannibalism 259–60, 302; in childbirth 213, 263, 265; and murder 241, 257, 260–1, 263

  Debussy, Claude: Pelléas et Mélisande 267, 365, 396, 407

  Delphi, oracle of 67, 75

  Demeter 150, 151–2

  Demy, Jacques: The Magic Donkey (film) 319, 351

  Deneuve, Catherine 319, 351 Denslow W. W.: Mother Goose Pl. 13

  Descartes, René 145–6

  Deshoulières, Antoinette 170

  Devil, the 35, 45–6, 47, 246, 248, 256; depictions of 120, 121, 125, 246, 247, 300, 317, 355, 358, 359; and hair 373; and riddles 134–5; lameness of 121, 152; and Sibyls 74; Pl.21

  ‘Diamonds and Toads’ 184

  Dibdin, Thomas: Harlequin and Mother Goose 158

  Dictionnaire de l’Académie 52, 58, 77, 162

  Diderot, Denis: Les Bijoux indiscrets 124

  Disney (Walt) Co. 207, 208, 307, 414–5, 416, 417; Aladdin 415; Beauty and the Beast 206, 277, 313–18, 314, 365; Cinderella 207, 225, 366; Hook 415; The Little Mermaid 318, 403, 404; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 207, 222, 225, 415

  distaffs 37, 136, 137, 250

  Donatello: Mary Magdalen 358

  donkeys (asses) 124, 142, 142, 143, 145, 291, 315, 325, 356; braying of 146; Feast of (Festum asinorum) 141; and fools 129, 140, 141; and pathos 145; and Queen of Sheba 112; wise 136–7, 157; witches and 143, 145; see also Apuleius The Golden Ass; Balaam and his ass; ‘Donkeyskin’

  ‘Donkeyskin’ xvi, xxi, 18, 55, 135, 171, 216, 217, 244, 265, 321–7, 342, 345–52, 356, 357–8, 378–9, 391

  Donne, John 263; ‘Song’ 111

  Doré, Gustave 86, 180, 244

  double entendres 13, 37, 135–6

  Douglas, Mary 408

  Doyle, Adelaide (Adèle) 277

  Doyle, Richard 277, 299, 304; ‘Rose Red’ 298, 304

  ‘Dream of the Rood, The’ 97, 99

  Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von 20, 191, 192; Ledwina 191–2

  Dukas, Paul 267–8

  Dürer, Albrecht: The Fall 356

  Flight into Egypt 32

  Dvoràk, Antotín: Rusalka 396–7, 398

  Dympna, Saint 326, 335–41, 335, 337, 344, 345, 349, 352; Pl.22

  E

  ‘East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon’ 310

  Eco, Umberto 363, 367; The Name of the Rose 158

  education: and women 82, 90, 168–9, 394

  Edward Scissorhands (film) 277, 313, 317

  Eleusinian mysteries 151, 239

  ‘Elfin-Knight, The’ 134–5, 248

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England 123, 302

  Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint 325

  ‘Emperor’s New Clothes, The’ 172, 179

  Empusae, the 121

  Erasmus, Desiderius 92, 157, 246

  Erinna 401

  Ernst, Max 382, 383, 385, 386; Les Femmes 100 Têtes 382; Une Petite fille rêve d’entrer au Carmel (A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil) 382; Une Semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness) 382–3, 383

  Ethiopian Church 98, 105, 106, 130

  Euripides: Medea 147

  Evangiles des quenouilles, Les (The Gospel of Distaves) 26–7, 36–9, 42, 43, 51–2, 53, 54, 58, 59, 62, 64, 65, 122, 148

  Eve 47, 244, 246, 277, 355; see also Adam and Eve

  Ewing, Juliana Horatia 266; ‘The Ogre Courting’ 266–7

  F

  Faber, Felix 100, 118

  Faerno, Gabriel: anthology 301, 324

  Fail, Noël du 21, 326; Propos rustiques 324

  fairies 14–16, 232–4 Falck, Jeremias: Allegory of Vanitas (The Old Procuress at the Toilet Table) 46, 46

  familiars (animal) 145, 157, 204, 291, 356

  Fates, the 14–15

  fathers 207, 211, 213, 347–8; daughters and 387–91, see also incest; marriages, arranged

  Fées ou Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye, Les (play) 55 feet, deformed 121–5, 118, 122, 124, 126, 146; and Chinese binding 128, 203; and the Devil 121, 122, 152; lameness and 152–3; and Queen Bertha 125–6; and Queen of Sheba xx, 112, 113, 115–7, 118, 118, 122, 125, 203; and sex 113, 128; webbed 114, 115, 118, 122, 128

  feminism xiv, 29, 151, 168, 177–9, 267, 281, 308, 334

  femmes fatales 295, 382, 399

  Fénélon, Abbé xiii, 14, 92, 94, 95, 168–9

  Ferretti, Jacopo: La Cenerentola 347

  Finkielkraut, Alain 414

  Flaubert, Gustave 341

  Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de 76–7, 78, 285; ‘L’Histoire des oracles’ 76

  Fool Laughing, A (anon.) 140, 141

  fools (jesters) 129, 140, 159, 196, 338; caps 141, 153, 209; riddles of 153, 154

  Ford, H. J. 13, 393

  Fouqué, La Motte: ‘Undine’ 396

  Fournival, Richard de: Bestiaire d’amour 146

  foxes 356–7

  Freud, Sigmund 113, 151, 195, 236, 403, 405; Studies on Hysteria 349–50; The Theme of Three Caskets 350, 390

  Fulgentius 121

  fur see hairiness

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  Gadagne, Marquise de 285

  Gallaeius, Servatius 133

  Galland, Antoine: (tr.) Arabian Nights 166

  Gammer Gurton 25, 190

  Gammer Grethel’s Fairy Tales 179, 189, 190, 193,

  Gass, William 243

  Gautier de Coinci: The Life of Saint Christina 319, 342–3; Miracles de Nostre Dame 342

  Gawain, Sir 405

  Geel, Belgium 335, 335, 336, 338, 339, 340–1, 341; Pl.22

  geese 51, 52, 54, 55–7, 65, 124, 127; see also Mother Goose

  Geneviève de Brabant, Saint 325

  Geoffrey of Monmouth: ‘Love Like Salt’ (from History of the Kings of Britain) 387–8, 391

  Gerebernus, Saint 340

  German Romanticism 188, 191–2, 410

  Gibbon, Edward 69

  Gildas, Saint 261

  Gilles de Rais 260

  German Romanticism 188, 191–2, 410

  Glück, Louise: ‘House of Marshland’ 218

  goats 355, 355, 356, 357

  Godelive, Saint 225, 325–6

  godmothers 33, 48, 92, 231–2, 233; fairy 204, 208, 215–17; Pl.1

  Golden Ass, The see Apuleius, Lucius

  Golden Legend see Voragine, Jacopo de

  ‘Goldilocks’ 157, 243, 302, 303, 365–6, 380

  Goltzius, Hendrik: Lot and His Daughters 329, 334

  ‘Goose Girl, The’ 127, 150, 192

  Gospel of Distaves, The see Evangiles des quenouilles, Les

  gossips xx, xxi, 33–4, 35–7, 39, 40–41, 42, 48–9, 50, 56, 92

  governesses (gouvernantes) 23, 171, 172, 174, 215, 277, 386

  Gower, John 351; Confessio amantis (c. 1390) 326

  grandmothers 13, 16, 17, 25, 82, 86–7, 92, 94–5, 148, 190, 229, 346, 347; see also Anne, St

  Grandville, Gérard: Les Animaux 61, 62

  Granges, David Des: The Saltonstall Family 262

  Great Green Worm, The’ see d’Aulnoy: ‘Serpentin vert’

  Grey, Lady Jane 369, 380

  Grimaldi, Joseph: Mother Goose 158–9

  Grimm, Brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm) 19, 24, 56–7, 63, 127, 145, 191, 192; Die Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales) (1812–57) xii, 19–20, 145, 190–2, 193, 207, 208, 211–12, 239–40, 281, 294, 297, 393–4, 414: Allerleirauh’ (All-Fur) 327, 365; ‘Aschenputtel’ (Cinderella) 203, 204–5, 224, 240, 348; ‘Dornröschen’ (Little Briar Rose) 222; ‘Die drei Federn’ (The Three Feathers) 192, 276; Fichters Vogel’ (Fitcher’s Bird) 255; Frau Holle’ (Mother Holle) 192, 215, 414; ‘The Goose Girl’ 127, 150, 192; ‘Hansel and Grete’ xvi, 202, 211; ‘The Juniper Tree’ 25; ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ 183; ‘Das Mädchen ohne Hände’ (The Maiden without Hands) 226, 347–8, 352; ‘Märchen von einem, der auszog, das Furchten zu lernen’ (The Tale of the Boy who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was) 276, 364; ‘Marienkind’ (Mary’s Child) 244; ‘Mother Holle’ see Frau Holle’; ‘Rapunzel’ 222, 365, 414; ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ 134;

 

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