Beschrijving
When officiating he sees an old woman weeping and believes her to be touched by his singing. Feeling flattered, he asks her why she weeps, but she answers that she had been reminded of her old goat that had been taken by the wolf [X436]. (Variant: she is afflicted by the thought that her son is studying to be a parson.) [X426].
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sprookje
Literatuur
Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 576
Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 243 No. 539
Christiansen Maal og Minne (1954) 49ff.
Crane Vitry 157 No. 56
Feilberg Ordbog II 882 s.v. »praediken»
Scala Celi 25a No. 164. - Literary Treatments: Rotunda (X436).