Beschrijving
The Clever Maiden Alone at Home Kills the Robbers. A daughter (servant, three daughters) of a miller (farmer, merchant, innkeeper, ruler) stays alone in the house at night (tower in the sea, treasury of her father). When a crowd of (twelve) robbers enters the house through a window, she cuts their heads off one by one and pulls their bodies inside [K912]. The leader of the robbers is wounded but is able to escape.
In revenge he comes back disguised as a nobleman, woos the girl [Q411.1], and leads her to his house in the forest. He discloses his identity by the scar that he got from the girl’s attack and tells her to expect a cruel death. She escapes (with the help of the robber’s mother, maidservant, boy), and hides herself in a tree (in the cargo of a carriage) where the robbers search in vain. Finally she reaches home safely. The robbers’ house is found and the robbers are punished.
In revenge he comes back disguised as a nobleman, woos the girl [Q411.1], and leads her to his house in the forest. He discloses his identity by the scar that he got from the girl’s attack and tells her to expect a cruel death. She escapes (with the help of the robber’s mother, maidservant, boy), and hides herself in a tree (in the cargo of a carriage) where the robbers search in vain. Finally she reaches home safely. The robbers’ house is found and the robbers are punished.
Motief
K912
Q411.1
Combinaties
This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 955, and also 311, 312, 363, 954, and 1685.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
956B
Subgenre
sprookje