Beschrijving
False Magician Exposed by Clever Girl. This tale exists chiefly in two different forms:
(1) A magician deceives the eyes of spectators making them believe that a rooster can pull (carry) a heavy beam (a rope-dancer can push a cart, juggle a beam).
A girl with a four-leafed shamrock (snake, dead toad, salamander) understands the trick and states that the rooster can only pull straw [K1963.1]. The magician takes revenge by making the girl believe she is going through deep water. She raises her dress as high as possible and all spectators mock her. (A lock magically closes the girl’s mouth so that she cannot speak).
(2) A juggler pretends to be able to creep through a thick beam (stone). The girl with the shamrock discovers that he only creeps over it or next to it. The water-episode follows, and in some variants the girl is bewitched into being lame or crooked.
(1) A magician deceives the eyes of spectators making them believe that a rooster can pull (carry) a heavy beam (a rope-dancer can push a cart, juggle a beam).
A girl with a four-leafed shamrock (snake, dead toad, salamander) understands the trick and states that the rooster can only pull straw [K1963.1]. The magician takes revenge by making the girl believe she is going through deep water. She raises her dress as high as possible and all spectators mock her. (A lock magically closes the girl’s mouth so that she cannot speak).
(2) A juggler pretends to be able to creep through a thick beam (stone). The girl with the shamrock discovers that he only creeps over it or next to it. The water-episode follows, and in some variants the girl is bewitched into being lame or crooked.
Motief
K1963.1
Commentaar
Documented in the Middle Ages, e.g. Étienne de Bourbon (No. 233).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
987
Subgenre
sprookje