Beschrijving
Parents serve boy a small fish and keep back a large one for themselves. Knowing this, the boy puts the fish to his ear. He says that he has asked the fish a question; the fish cannot answer but tells him to ask the large fish under the bed. [J1341.2].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 247 No. 158
*Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 700
L. Schmidt Oesterr. Zs. f. Vksk. 1954, 134
Italian Novella: Rotunda (J1341.3).