Beschrijving
Son on the Gallows (previously The Bad Rearing). From his childhood a mother (in older variants: father) teaches her son to steal (she does not prevent him from stealing).
He is caught and condemned to death. On the gallows he asks for permission to kiss his mother for the last time and bites off her nose (tongue, ear). He explains that she taught him to steal (that she spoiled him as a child, that this is her punishment for her neglect) [Q586]. Cf. Type 1417.
He is caught and condemned to death. On the gallows he asks for permission to kiss his mother for the last time and bites off her nose (tongue, ear). He explains that she taught him to steal (that she spoiled him as a child, that this is her punishment for her neglect) [Q586]. Cf. Type 1417.
Motief
Q586
Commentaar
The tale of the son on the gallows can already be found in the antique literature (Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, ch. II). Documented in the Middle Ages, e.g. Jacques de Vitry, Sermones vulgares (Jacques de Vitry/Crane, No. 287).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
838
Subgenre
sprookje