Beschrijving
Guardian Angel. This miscellaneous type includes different tales dealing with people who are protected by an invisible being (angel) from danger, injury, or acting badly [V238]. Examples:
(1) A priest offends the new (second) wife of a prince. The prince wants to take revenge. He summons the priest, intending to shoot him. When the priest arrives, the prince instead invites him to dinner. The courtiers ask the prince why he suddenly changed his mind. He says that someone standing next to him told him what to do. No one else saw such a person, so the prince thinks it must have been an angel.
(2) A girl going through a forest is followed by a man who tries to rape her. She falls to her knees and prays to God, and the man lets her go. A few days later he attacks another girl and is arrested. He is asked why he let the first girl go, and replies that someone was with her.
(3) A clergyman who is disliked by his congregation is called to go to the house of someone who is dying. When he arrives he finds no one there. He thinks he was the victim of a prank and goes home.
Years later when he goes again to a deathbed, he learns that the false summons had been made by someone who intended to kill him. But the villain saw that the clergyman was accompanied by someone else (angel, man dressed in white) and gave up his plan.
(1) A priest offends the new (second) wife of a prince. The prince wants to take revenge. He summons the priest, intending to shoot him. When the priest arrives, the prince instead invites him to dinner. The courtiers ask the prince why he suddenly changed his mind. He says that someone standing next to him told him what to do. No one else saw such a person, so the prince thinks it must have been an angel.
(2) A girl going through a forest is followed by a man who tries to rape her. She falls to her knees and prays to God, and the man lets her go. A few days later he attacks another girl and is arrested. He is asked why he let the first girl go, and replies that someone was with her.
(3) A clergyman who is disliked by his congregation is called to go to the house of someone who is dying. When he arrives he finds no one there. He thinks he was the victim of a prank and goes home.
Years later when he goes again to a deathbed, he learns that the false summons had been made by someone who intended to kill him. But the villain saw that the clergyman was accompanied by someone else (angel, man dressed in white) and gave up his plan.
Motief
V238
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
770A*
Subgenre
sprookje