Beschrijving
Why Dogs Sniff at One Another. This tale exists chiefly in two different forms:
(1) Animals arrange a banquet and discover that the pepper is missing. One dog is sent to buy some but he does not return. Since then dogs sniff at one another to find that dog. Or, a dog is sent to get some medicine and does not return.
(2) Some dogs are sent to heaven for an audience and, while waiting, they shit in heaven and are chased away. The next time spices or perfume are attached under their tails, but again they are chased away. These dogs do not return to the other dogs, who continue to look for the missing dogs by sniffing under each other’s tails [A2232.8, Q433.3]. Cf. Type 200A.
(1) Animals arrange a banquet and discover that the pepper is missing. One dog is sent to buy some but he does not return. Since then dogs sniff at one another to find that dog. Or, a dog is sent to get some medicine and does not return.
(2) Some dogs are sent to heaven for an audience and, while waiting, they shit in heaven and are chased away. The next time spices or perfume are attached under their tails, but again they are chased away. These dogs do not return to the other dogs, who continue to look for the missing dogs by sniffing under each other’s tails [A2232.8, Q433.3]. Cf. Type 200A.
Motief
A2232.8
Q433.3
Commentaar
(1) documented in the 19th century, (2) originates in an Aesopic fable (Phaedrus/Perry 1965, IV,19). See Type 200.
Combinaties
200, 200A.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
200B
Subgenre
sprookje