Beschrijving
The Boy who Had Never Seen a Woman. After his mother dies, a boy is brought up in seclusion and never sees a woman. When he is fourteen (eighteen) years old, his father takes him to the nearest town. There he sees girls for the first time, and he asks what sort of creatures (animals) they are. His father says they are little devils (geese). The boy asks his father to buy some to take home. Or, someone asks what he liked best and he replies, “The devils.” [T371]. Cf. Type 1545B.
Motief
T371
Commentaar
Documented in the Indian Barlaam and Josaphat (ch. 29); an early European version can be found in Jacques de Vitry, Sermones vulgares (Jacques de Vitry/Crane, No. 82).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1678
Subgenre
mop