Beschrijving
Candles on the Crayfish. At night (Halloween) a man (rascal, thief, trickster, clergyman) sticks lights (candles) on the backs of living crayfish (crabs, beetles) and sets the animals loose in a room (the graveyard). Gullible people take them for spirits (devils, souls from Purgatory) and are frightened (run away, pay money for a mass, let themselves be put into a sack to be conveyed to “heaven”) [K335.0.5.1].
Motief
K335.0.5.1
Commentaar
Documented in the late 14th century by Franco Sacchetti, Trecento novelle (No. 191).
Combinaties
1525A, 1737.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1740
Subgenre
mop