Beschrijving
In a land where cats are unknown, he sells it for fortune. Cf. Types 1281, 1650.
I. He Gets the Cat. (a) The hero is left a cat as his only inheritance [N411.1.1] (see Type 1650); or (b) he earns or finds four coins which he tests by throwing them into a stream: only one floats; the rest are counterfeit [J1931). With this he buys a cat.
II. Sale of the Cat. He takes his cat to a mouse-infested land where cats are unknown [F708.1] and sells it for a fortune [N411.1].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*Anderson in Tauscher Volksmärchen 173
*BP II 69ff. (Grimm No. 70).