Beschrijving
The hog's heart, the thief's hand, the cat's eye. The three doctors make a trial of their skill [H504]. One removes one of his eyes, one his heart, and the other a hand [F668.1]. They are to replace them without injury the next morning [E782]. During the night they are eaten and others substituted [X1721.2, E780.2], and one of the doctors thus acquires a cat's eye which sees best at night, one a thief's hand that wants to steal [E781.1.1], and one a hog's heart that makes him want to root in the ground. [E786].
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Literatuur
*BP II 552 (Grimm No. 118).