Beschrijving
The Clergyman in the Sack to Heaven. A man (master thief) is ordered to capture the preacher and put him into a sack. He dresses as an angel (Gabriel, Michael, angel of death) or as a saint (Peter) and waits at night near the church (parsonage, cemetery, pulpit) to conduct the preacher to heaven alive.
The credulous preacher willingly gets into the sack (chest, trunk), and the man takes him to the goose house (bell tower, chimney; hangs him by the gate). The next day, the preacher is discovered by his maidservant as she feeds the geese (bell-ringer as he rings the bells). She lets him out of the sack. Cf. Types 1525A, 1535.
The credulous preacher willingly gets into the sack (chest, trunk), and the man takes him to the goose house (bell tower, chimney; hangs him by the gate). The next day, the preacher is discovered by his maidservant as she feeds the geese (bell-ringer as he rings the bells). She lets him out of the sack. Cf. Types 1525A, 1535.
Motief
K1975
K1975.1
Commentaar
Usually in combination with Type 1525A. Documented in medieval Arabian literature. In the earliest European variants in the Renaissance – from Marabottino Manetti and from Straparola, Piacevoli notti (I,2). –, the clergyman is first tricked by a thief.
Combinaties
This type is usually combined with one or more other types, esp. 940, 950, 1004, 1479*, 1525, 1525A, 1525D, 1525E, 1526, and 1535.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1737
Subgenre
mop