Reading Notes: The Heptameron, Part B


The Haunted House:

  • more torches to see the spirit 
  • Monsieur de Grignaux - fell asleep only to be awoken by a sound box and someone calling the name of his diseased grandmama along with a clamor of tumbling tables and stools
    • Brenigne
  • Vexed at not getting a full 8 hrs of sleep
  • Following night:
    • Master Goblin = spirit
    • pretended to sleep and snore
      • caught the hand of the spirit
        • it was the girl that slept in their chamber
    • reason for spooking: she had fallen in love with a domestic and wanted the master and mistress gone so they could play house
      • had them beaten and fired them - got rid of the spirits who had haunted the house for 2 yrs
  • conversation of those on the bridge - comments about the story
    • who had sense, sinning, pleasure
The Spanish Widow:
  • set in Saragossa
    • merchant who wanted to honor God after his death
      • sell his fine Spanish horse and bestow this wealth on the poor Mendicants
        • responsibility with the wife
  • after death - decided to change it up
    • sell a cat with the horse as a package deal
      • cat = 99 ducats
      • horse = 1 ducat
        • = 100 ducats (what husband wanted to sell horse for)
      • sold!
  • wife kept the 99 ducats from the cat and gave 1 ducat to the Mendicants per her husbands wishes
  • Commentary again:
    • who had sense, was it right?
Image information:
The Haunted House / Das Geisterhaus by Harald Hoyer
Bibliography:
The Haunted House. Story source: The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, translated by Walter K. Kelly (1855).

The Spanish Widow. Story source: The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, translated by Walter K. Kelly (1855).

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