Beschrijving
The Magic Providing Purse (previously The Magic Providing Purse and “Out, Boy, out of the Sack!”). A supernatural being (devil, spirits, fortune, frost, wind) gives a poor man an object (knapsack, sack, purse, pot, box) that supplies him with unlimited food. The man takes it home to his family.
A rich man (brother, neighbor) buys (borrows, steals) the magic object, and soon the poor man is hungry again. He asks the supernatural being for a replacement and receives a similar looking object. But this one produces men with cudgels (whips) instead of food; they beat him and his family. The poor man gives the object to his rich neighbor. He is beaten until he returns the food-supplying object to the poor man.
In some variants the last scene occurs at a meal organized by the rich man and all his guests are beaten. Cf. Types 563, 565.
A rich man (brother, neighbor) buys (borrows, steals) the magic object, and soon the poor man is hungry again. He asks the supernatural being for a replacement and receives a similar looking object. But this one produces men with cudgels (whips) instead of food; they beat him and his family. The poor man gives the object to his rich neighbor. He is beaten until he returns the food-supplying object to the poor man.
In some variants the last scene occurs at a meal organized by the rich man and all his guests are beaten. Cf. Types 563, 565.
Motief
D1030.1
D1472.1.7
D1472.1.22
J2355.1
D861.1
K2241
D861.3
D861.2
B103.1.1
D1401.2
D1601.5
D1401.1
D1651.2
D881.2
Commentaar
Literary treatment, see Basile, Pentamerone (V,2). The variants of the Types 563, 564 and 565 are often mixed with each other or they are not clearly differentiated.
Combinaties
480, 503, 563, 591, 613, 675, 735, and 954.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
564
Subgenre
sprookje