Beschrijving
The Wolf Overeats in the Cellar. (Including the previous Types 33*, 33**, 41*, and 160**.) A fox (cat, jackal, hedgehog) convinces a wolf (polecat, hyena, antelope) to join him in breaking into a cellar (storehouse, stable, kitchen, vineyard) to steal food. While they eat, the fox keeps checking to be sure that he still fits through the narrow exit. The wolf eats so much that he cannot leave. He is caught and beaten (killed) [K1022.1].
In early variants, a fox in a storehouse eats so much that he cannot leave. A weasel advises him to fast. (Previously Type 41*.)
Or, the fox pretends to be dead because he is so fat that he cannot leave the cellar without help. Thus he is able to escape. (Previously Type 33**.)
In early variants, a fox in a storehouse eats so much that he cannot leave. A weasel advises him to fast. (Previously Type 41*.)
Or, the fox pretends to be dead because he is so fat that he cannot leave the cellar without help. Thus he is able to escape. (Previously Type 33**.)
Motief
K1022.1
Commentaar
Documented by Jacques de Vitry, Sermones vulgares (Jacques de Vitry/Crane, No. 174); then in 1178 in the Roman de Renart (XIV,647–843). The version with the fox and the weasel is documented by Horace, Epistolae (I,7) and as an Aesopic fable (Perry 1965, 425 No. 24).
Combinaties
This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 1, 2, 4, 34, and 100.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
41
Subgenre
sprookje