Beschrijving
Three maidens one after the other sent into the wood. Kind and unkind. Animals disenchanted. (Cf. Type 480.) Their clue of grain (lentils) is eaten by birds [R135, R135.1]. They come to a house where they find an old man [D1890], a cock [D166.1.1], a hen [D166.1], and a cow [D133.1]. The elder sisters are unkind [Q2] and are thrown into the cellar. The youngest [L54] feeds the animals and thus disenchants them all [D731]. The old man is a prince, the animals the servants. He marries the girl [L162].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*BP III 276 (Grimm No. 169)
Coffin 1.