Beschrijving
The Great Tree. This miscellaneous type comprises various tales dealing with an enormous tree (plant or beanstalk that grows up to the sky, etc.) [F54]. Cf. Types 317, 555, 804A, 852, 1889, 1889E, 1920C, 1920F, and 1960D. The following are the most common variants:
An oak tree is so big that eighty people can dance on its stump.
A church is built on the stump of a pine tree. A hole in the tree is used for a barn, and three hundred bears hibernate under the tree’s roots. A road runs through the tree. A man drives a horse and wagon into the tree through a hole, and is lost there for three days before he finds his way out.
When the tree is transported, its roots pass by a certain place on Easter but its crown does not come by until after Christmas.
An oak tree is so big that eighty people can dance on its stump.
A church is built on the stump of a pine tree. A hole in the tree is used for a barn, and three hundred bears hibernate under the tree’s roots. A road runs through the tree. A man drives a horse and wagon into the tree through a hole, and is lost there for three days before he finds his way out.
When the tree is transported, its roots pass by a certain place on Easter but its crown does not come by until after Christmas.
Motief
F54
Combinaties
1738, 1882, 1900, 1920A, and 1920H.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1960G
Subgenre
mop