Beschrijving
My Father’s Baptism (Wedding). A boy tells lies. For example, he claims that he was born before his father was born, baptized, or married. People send him to a mill (to climb up a sky-high tree) to get some flour (to find a witness for his parents’ marriage or a name or godfather in heaven).
He harnesses six sacks of flour to the wagon and loads it with six oxen. When he arrives at the mill it is not there, but out picking strawberries. He finds the mill and drives it home. While he was gone, the handle of his whip has grown into a sky-high tree with birds’ nests in its branches. When he climbs up, the fledgling birds catch him and carry him away, and then drop him.
He delivers the flour to his parents, dances with his mother at her wedding, and is born two years later. Cf. Type 1882.
He harnesses six sacks of flour to the wagon and loads it with six oxen. When he arrives at the mill it is not there, but out picking strawberries. He finds the mill and drives it home. While he was gone, the handle of his whip has grown into a sky-high tree with birds’ nests in its branches. When he climbs up, the fledgling birds catch him and carry him away, and then drop him.
He delivers the flour to his parents, dances with his mother at her wedding, and is born two years later. Cf. Type 1882.
Motief
X1071
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1962
Subgenre
mop