Beschrijving
Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. [K1345]. (Appears frequently with Type 1544.)
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
**Varnhagen »Die Erzählung von der Wiege» Englische Studien IX 240
**Hart »The Reeve's Tale» in Bryan and Dempster 124ff.
Coffin 3.