Beschrijving
The Hungry Clergyman. This type combines one of two introductory episodes with a common main part.
Introductory episodes:
(1) Cf. Type 1691.
(2) Master and servant (clergyman and sexton) go hunting (in the forest). The servant brings food but the master does not. When they become hungry, the servant eats his food privately and tells the master that he is eating hay (horse droppings). In the evening they are tired when they come to a farm. The servant warns his master not to accept an invitation to eat when it is first offered. He also tells the farmer not to invite the master more than once, or he will become angry. The master declines the first invitation, and it is not repeated. During the night, he goes out in search of food, and gives the servant the end of a rope to hold. The servant ties his end of the rope to the innkeeper’s bed, which motivates the next part of the tale.
Main part:
The hungry man eats his fill and wants to take some food to his companion. He winds up in the host’s bed and thinks the backside of the housewife is his companion’s face. When she farts, he thinks his companion is blowing on the food to cool it. Angry that the “man” will not eat, he slaps the porridge into his “face”. The woman wakes up and thinks she has soiled the bed [X431].
In some variants, the tale continues: The guest washes his messy hands in a jug and cannot get them out. Intending to break the jug on a stone, he breaks it instead on the bald head of the host or on the buttocks of the host´s wife, who has gotten up to clean herself.
Introductory episodes:
(1) Cf. Type 1691.
(2) Master and servant (clergyman and sexton) go hunting (in the forest). The servant brings food but the master does not. When they become hungry, the servant eats his food privately and tells the master that he is eating hay (horse droppings). In the evening they are tired when they come to a farm. The servant warns his master not to accept an invitation to eat when it is first offered. He also tells the farmer not to invite the master more than once, or he will become angry. The master declines the first invitation, and it is not repeated. During the night, he goes out in search of food, and gives the servant the end of a rope to hold. The servant ties his end of the rope to the innkeeper’s bed, which motivates the next part of the tale.
Main part:
The hungry man eats his fill and wants to take some food to his companion. He winds up in the host’s bed and thinks the backside of the housewife is his companion’s face. When she farts, he thinks his companion is blowing on the food to cool it. Angry that the “man” will not eat, he slaps the porridge into his “face”. The woman wakes up and thinks she has soiled the bed [X431].
In some variants, the tale continues: The guest washes his messy hands in a jug and cannot get them out. Intending to break the jug on a stone, he breaks it instead on the bald head of the host or on the buttocks of the host´s wife, who has gotten up to clean herself.
Motief
X431
Commentaar
Documented in the late-13th century French fabliau by Gautier Le Leu, De deus vilains.
Combinaties
This type is usually combined with one or more other types, esp. 1653, 1691, and 1696.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1775
Subgenre
mop