Beschrijving
A man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. [H506.3]. Cf. Type 212*.
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*Bolte Zs. f. Vksk XXXIII-XXXIV 38
Feilberg Ordbog III 970a s.v. »ulv», II 354f. s.v. »kal*.