Beschrijving
The Hen Learns to Speak (previously The Parson’s Stupid Wife. ). A mercenary lover makes the clergyman’s foolish wife (a neighbor woman who has discovered the liason) believe that a hen (chickens) can be taught to talk (sing) [J1882.1]. The woman gives him the hen (eggs to hatch) and feed for it. (The man eats the hen or eggs.)
When the woman asks what the hen (chickens) has learned to say, the man answers, that it can say, “The clergyman’s wife has slept with the farmer.” She lets him keep the hen and feed (bribes him not to tell anyone) [K1271.1.3].
When the woman asks what the hen (chickens) has learned to say, the man answers, that it can say, “The clergyman’s wife has slept with the farmer.” She lets him keep the hen and feed (bribes him not to tell anyone) [K1271.1.3].
Motief
J1882.1
K1271.1.3
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1750
Subgenre
mop