Beschrijving
The three hunchback brothers are killed. A drunken man is employed by the woman who has accidentally slain them to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another one out and finally the third [K2322]. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the hunchback husband and drowns him.
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sprookje
Literatuur
**Pillet Das Fabliau von les trois bossus menestrels (1901)
*BP III 485 (Grimm No. 212)
Bédier Fabliaux 236
Taylor MPh XV (1917) 223 n. 3
Coffin 6
*Espinosa II Nos. 31f. - Literary Treatments: Chauvin VIII 72
Italian Novella: Rotunda (K2322).