Beschrijving
The Three Hunchback Brothers Drowned. There are two parts to this tale. The first part exists in two forms, but the second part is largely the same.
(1) Three hunchbacked musicians are asked by the wife of another hunchbacked man to play some music. (One of the three hunchbacked brothers marries a rich widow, and his poor brothers visit her uninvited.) The husband unexpectedly comes home. The musicians hide in a chest (oven, cellar), where they die [N320] (kill each other).
(2) Three monks (clergymen, knights, students) court a beautiful woman. On the advice of her husband, she invites them to visit her. The visit of the first lover is interrupted by that of the second, etc. , and they hide in a chest (oven, cellar). The third lover hides when the husband arrives. The husband kills them in their hiding place [K1551.1]. Cf. Type 1730.
A drunken man (stupid farmhand, farmer, porter, undertaker, beggar, soldier, the devil) is employed to dump one of the dead bodies into the river (to bury it). When he returns, he finds the second body in the same place as if it had come back from the dead, and then the third. After he gets rid of all three bodies, he meets the hunchbacked husband (another monk, clergyman, knight) and, thinking that this is another revenant, kills him and dumps him into the river (buries him) also. Cf. Type 1537.
(1) Three hunchbacked musicians are asked by the wife of another hunchbacked man to play some music. (One of the three hunchbacked brothers marries a rich widow, and his poor brothers visit her uninvited.) The husband unexpectedly comes home. The musicians hide in a chest (oven, cellar), where they die [N320] (kill each other).
(2) Three monks (clergymen, knights, students) court a beautiful woman. On the advice of her husband, she invites them to visit her. The visit of the first lover is interrupted by that of the second, etc. , and they hide in a chest (oven, cellar). The third lover hides when the husband arrives. The husband kills them in their hiding place [K1551.1]. Cf. Type 1730.
A drunken man (stupid farmhand, farmer, porter, undertaker, beggar, soldier, the devil) is employed to dump one of the dead bodies into the river (to bury it). When he returns, he finds the second body in the same place as if it had come back from the dead, and then the third. After he gets rid of all three bodies, he meets the hunchbacked husband (another monk, clergyman, knight) and, thinking that this is another revenant, kills him and dumps him into the river (buries him) also. Cf. Type 1537.
Motief
N320
K1551.1
Commentaar
Documented in the early 13th century (Mishlé Sendebar and the fabliaux Les trois bossus ménestrels, Estormi und Les quatre prestres).
Combinaties
1535, 1539, and 1730.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1536B
Subgenre
mop