Beschrijving
The rescue from the pit. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of the princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy.
Motief
W154.8
K735
B522.1
B522.2
B512
Commentaar
W154.8. Grateful animals; ungrateful man. K735. Capture in pitfall. B522.1. Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy. By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation. B522.2. Kite steals jewels and thus saves condemned man. Innocent man in possession of stolen jewels, is about to be apprehended. Kite carries off jewels and saves him. B512. Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent.)
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*Bolte-Polivka IV 139
*Hilka Mittheilungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde XVII 1
*Wesselski Märchen 246 No. 56
Coffin 2
Cosquin Etudes 22ff.