Patufet
Patufet (or In Patufet ) is the principal character of a Catalan tale .
It is generally presented as a tiny child of the size of a grain of rice carrying large a barretina red so that his/her parents can find it more easily. It is curious and unpleasant until the day when it decides to prove with the whole world which it can make useful and which one can have confidence in him (in other versions, Patufet is nice and courageous at the beginning of the history).
The first task which he undertakes is of going to the store to buy saffron. As people cannot see it, it avoids being made crush while singing:
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Patim patam patum,
- Patim patam patum,
(Patim patam patum/Hommes and women which come towards me Patim patam patum/do not go on Patufet).
People see only one coin going and singing but it manages to achieve its mission. Thereafter, it decides to go to the farm and to carry its meal to his father but it misses chance and is made eat by an ox.
His/her parents seek by calling it " Patufet, one ets? " (Patufet, where are you?) and he answers of the interior of ox:
Sóc with the panxa LED bou,
(I am in the paunch of ox/Where it does not snow nor does not rain. /When the ox pétera/Patufet leaves!)
They hear the small voice of Patufet at the end of one moment and the mother nourishes grass ox making Peter.
This history can be under consideration like symbolizing a training and a passage at the adulthood.
Derived
In Patufet was also a Catalan magazine for children published of 1904 with 1938 then of 1969 with 1972.
Very Bessones (Triplets), a Catalan cartoon devoted a chapter to Patufet.
Patufet is often used in Catalan to indicate a whole small child or a magazine for youth.
The word Patufet is at the origin of the word Castillan indicating the Schtroumpfs: Pitufos .
External bonds
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In Patufet &
- Patufet as a symbol of the passage at the adulthood
Category: Catalonia
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