Beschrijving
The man as doctor. Death at the feet of the sick man (the bed or the sick man turned around).
I. Death as Godfather. (a) A poor man chooses death as godfather, (b) since he considers him juster than either God or the Devil.
II. Death's Gifts. (a) Death gives him or (b) the son the (c) power of seeing Death standing at the head or foot of the bed and thus forecasting the progress of sickness.
III. Death Tricked. (a) The doctor betrays Death by not finishing the Paternoster he had been granted time to say or (b) by turning the bed around when Death is standing at the foot.
IV. Death Avenges Self (a) by tricking the man into finishing the prayer or (b) by putting out the man's life-light which he shows the man in a lower-world of lights.
Motief
Z111
J486
D1724
D1825.3.1
K551.1
K557
E765.1.3
Commentaar
I. Z111. Death personified. J486. Death preferred above God and Justice.
II. D1724. Magic power from Death. Death as godfather. D1825.3.1. Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness.
III. K551.1. Respite from death granted until prayer is finished. K557. Death cheated by moving bed.
IV. E765.1.3. Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies.
II. D1724. Magic power from Death. Death as godfather. D1825.3.1. Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness.
III. K551.1. Respite from death granted until prayer is finished. K557. Death cheated by moving bed.
IV. E765.1.3. Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies.
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
**R. Th. Christiansen Danske Studier (1915) 71ff.
*BP I 377 (Grimm No. 44
c£ No. 42)
*Köhler-Bolte I 291
*Liungman SSF II 430
*Espinosa III 140-150.