Beschrijving
The Revenge of the Castrated Man. A male slave (servant, farmhand) who had been punished for a serious crime (adultery) by castration (blinding) blackmails his master to be mutilated (to mutilate himself) by threatening to kill his children (sons, wife). When the man has obeyed, the slave kills the children anyway [K1465].
Motief
K1465
Commentaar
Documented in medieval Arabic literature; early European version by Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Kambriae (I,11). For popular treatment, see Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
844*
Subgenre
sprookje