Beschrijving
The Merman’s Golden Axe (previously The Axe Falls into the Stream). A woodcutter drops his axe in a river (pool). A supernatural being (merman) exhibits a golden and then a silver axe. The man rejects both because they do not belong to him [Q3.1]; he only accepts his own. The two other axes are then given to him as a gift.
A greedy imitator, who pretends to be the owner of the golden and the silver axe, does not get either and loses his own.
A greedy imitator, who pretends to be the owner of the golden and the silver axe, does not get either and loses his own.
Motief
Q3.1
Commentaar
Aesopic fable (Perry 1965, 453f. No. 173).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
729
Subgenre
sprookje