Beschrijving
finally the priest (in the sack to heaven); cf. Type 1737.
I. Theft as a Task. (a) A good-for-nothing who has run away from home returns as a great man, boasts of his skill as a thief [K301.1], or (b) brothers learn trades and return home and boast; thus the earl hears of the trained thief [F660 1, H9l5]. (c) The earl puts the youth to tests [H1151].
II. Theft of Horse. (a) He steals the earl's horse [H1151.2] by dressing as an old woman and making the stable boys drunk [K332]; or horses or cattle from drivers by chasing a rabbit so that the drivers join the chase [K341.5.1].
III. Theft of Sheet and Ring. He steals the countess's sheet and ring [H1151.3, H1151.4] while he deceives the count into shooting and burying a dead man [K362.2].
IV. Places Exchanged in Sack. He lures the parson and the sexton into a sack by telling them that he is Peter and that as the Day of Judgment has come he will take them to heaven [K842]. Cf. Types 1535 V, 1737.
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*BP III 33ff., 379, 390 n. 2, 391, 393 (Grimm No. 192)
Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 850. - Literary Treatments: Chauvin VIII 136.