Beschrijving
Wife Follows Written Instructions. A master (husband) writes a list of instructions for his apprentice (servant, wife) (the apprentice asks for such a list). One day when they are traveling together, the (drunken) master falls into the mud (ditch, stream) and asks the apprentice to rescue him. The apprentice answers that he does not know whether this is part of his duties and runs home to look up the situation in his instructions. (The master manages to get himself out, and tears up the list.) [J2516.3.1].
Motief
J2516.3.1
Commentaar
Documented in the 14th century by John Bromyard in his collection Summa predicantium (H I,16). The characters were originally a married couple, but since the 17th–18th centuries they are mostly a master and a servant.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1562B
Subgenre
mop