Beschrijving
The woman for whom he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belongs to the sea... sea - shirt - washerwoman - soap - woman - wood - press - grease - herder - cheese-frame - fig-tree - horn - goat - beans. [Z44.1].
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
*Parsons JAFL XXV 219, XXVII 222, XXXIII 40, MAFLS XV (1) 207 n. 1.