Beschrijving
A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager. LJ2511].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
**W. N. Brown »The Silence Wager Stories: their Origin and their Diffusion» American Journal of Philology XLIII (1922) 289-317
*Anderson in Tauscher Volksmärchen 189
Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 135 n. Köhler-Bolte II 578
Liungman SSF III 447
Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 263ff
Clouston Tales II l5ff.
Coffin 2
Basset 1001 Contes II 401.