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ATU 1585    ATU 1585   

- The Lawyer’s Mad Client.

Een mop (),

Beschrijving

The Lawyer’s Mad Client. A farmer (in financial distress) sells the same animal (hog, cow, calf, hare) to several different people (has committed other misdemeanors) and is to stand trial. His lawyer advises him to plead insanity, and to speak only in animal noises (barks, bleats) or always to answer in the same words (yes, aha, nothing, nonsense words). He is not convicted, and his lawyer demands his fee. The man uses the same trick and does not pay [K1655]. Cf. Type 1534D*.

Motief

K1655

Commentaar

Documented in the 9th century as an Arabian anecdote. Popularized through the 15th-century French farce, Maistre Pathelin.

Combinaties

1735.

Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype

1585

Subgenre

mop