7 Doralice Features: Incest, infanticide, extremely cruel and unusual punishment/torture, death by being quartered Evil Prince Tebaldo vows to kill his only daughter Doralice, after she refuses to marry him. The terrified Doralice, having learned of her incestuous father’s intentions, hides inside a wooden chest which Prince Tebaldo sells to a merchant. She remains in the chest for months, but is kept alive by a magical elixir given to her by her kindly old nurse. The chest ends up being sold to a king, who catches Doralice sneaking out of it and – rather spontaneously – makes her his wife.Prince Tebaldo manages to track Doralice down. His disguise is so good that she doesn’t recognize her evil father, and lets him sleep in the nursery with her newborn infant twins. Tebaldo slaughters the twin babies, and pins the crime on Queen Doralice herself. Her enraged husband has the unfortunate queen buried up to her neck in the ground. She is to be fed and watered to prevent her dying of starvation, so her body can be slowly eaten alive by worms. Eventually, Tebaldo’s crime is revealed: Doralice is removed from the ground, more dead than alive, and Tebaldo is tortured, quartered and fed to the dogs.Presumably, they all live happily ever after – though Doralice was probably in need of some therapy.-(Giovanni Francesco Straparola – The Facetious Nights of Straparola 1550ish)
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:29 +0000
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