Beschrijving
The brother kills his brother (sister) and buries him in the earth. From the bones a shepherd makes a flute which brings the secret to light. In different versions the murder is revealed in several different ways [N271]: (a) an instrument (harp, flute) is made from the bones [E632] or (b) from a tree growing from the grave [E631].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
**Solymossy »Mese a jávorfáròl» Ethnographia XXXI (1920) 1-25
**Mackensen Der singende Knochen (FFC XLIX)
*BP I 260 (Grimm No. 28)
Coffin 8
Krohn FFC XCVI 74ff.
*Cocchiara Genesi di leggendi (3d ed. Palermo, 1949) 109ff
Brewster Maal og Minne (1953) 49ff.
Espinosa II 326-332
Anderson Novelline Nos. 95, 96.