After having locked the devil up in a box (in <a href="https://puppetplays.eu/en/oeuvres/5840/kasperl-und-der-teufel" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kasperl und der Teufel</a>), Kasperl wants to throw him in the water. Suddenly, it is his wife who emerges from the box… and who starts to slap him many times to take revenge, for he wanted to get rid of her (<a href="https://puppetplays.eu/en/oeuvres/5777/frau-kasperl-und-die-k%C3%B6chin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frau Kasperl und die Köchin</a>)! Kasperl ends up throwing both his wife and the box out of the glove-puppet booth, and then goes to the inn. On the way, he encounters a curious animal peeping at him; he pets the animal, which bites him. He fetches a sausage to feed the animal, but decides to eat it and gives the skin of the sausage to the animal. The animal catches Kasperl’s arm with its maw, then catches him by the back of his pants… Kasperl goes to get his stick, which the animal tries to steal from him; the animal gets beaten and runs away, followed by Kasperl who wants to knock it out.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Reinhardt Carl

Germany

Munich

Printed

Sausage

Animal

Beast

Stick

Mace

Woman

Devil

Nightingale

Crocodile

Tavern

Jaws

Glutton

Hunger

Tralala

Hits

Radirullala

Comical

Grotesque

Farcical

Carl Reinhardt, Das geheimnisvolle Tier, 1852.

German

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Chase

Blow-with-a-stick

Domestic scene

Slaps

Das geheimnisvolle Tier

The mysterious animal