Beschrijving
The Clergyman and the Calf. A man (usually a clergyman) who has a stomachache sends his servant (maid) to the doctor with a sample of his urine. On the way the bottle breaks, and the servant fills a new bottle with urine from a pregnant cow (mare). The doctor diagnoses that the man will give birth to a calf (cf. Type 1862C). The man believes him (and goes away embarrassed). Some time later (in a stall, when he is drunk, after taking a laxative) he evacuates his bowels. He happens to see a calf there and believes it to be his child [J2321.1]. Cf. Type 1319.
Motief
J2321.1
Commentaar
The central motif of the test of substituted urine first appears in an Aesopic fable (Babrius/Perry, No. 684).
Combinaties
1281A, 1848A.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1739
Subgenre
mop