Beschrijving
The Old Woman and her Pig. (Including the previous Types 2030A–H, 2030J, 2030A*–E*, 2034B, 2034E.) This miscellaneous type consists of various chain tales in which a person (animal) wants an animal (person, object) to do something (go home, pick pears, grow, get some beer, eat, reap grain). The animal refuses.
The person threatens him by asking someone else (person, animal, object, or element: e.g. dog, stick, fire, water, butcher) for help. The request is not granted (the help is postponed until some demand can be met). Finally someone (hangman, angel of death, animal) obliges, and all the others in succession do what the person had wanted them to [Z41, Z41.3, Z41.4, Z41.4.1, Z41.4.2, Z41.7, Z41.7.1, Z41.8, Z41.9].
In a few variants, a mouse eats cheese (wheat, wick of an eternal flame). A cat condemns the mouse and eats it as punishment; a dog eats the cat for eating the mouse. Each animal, object, or element is blamed for having damaged the one before it, and is then punished [Z41.1]. (Previously Type 2030C.)
The person threatens him by asking someone else (person, animal, object, or element: e.g. dog, stick, fire, water, butcher) for help. The request is not granted (the help is postponed until some demand can be met). Finally someone (hangman, angel of death, animal) obliges, and all the others in succession do what the person had wanted them to [Z41, Z41.3, Z41.4, Z41.4.1, Z41.4.2, Z41.7, Z41.7.1, Z41.8, Z41.9].
In a few variants, a mouse eats cheese (wheat, wick of an eternal flame). A cat condemns the mouse and eats it as punishment; a dog eats the cat for eating the mouse. Each animal, object, or element is blamed for having damaged the one before it, and is then punished [Z41.1]. (Previously Type 2030C.)
Motief
Z41
Z41.3
Z41.4
Z41.4.1
Z41.4.2
Z41.7
Z41.7.1
Z41.8
Z41.9
Z41.1
Commentaar
Documented in 1768 by J. S. Ulrich, Sammlung jüdischer Geschichten (p. 131). Also a game for children (Johann Fischart, Spieleverzeichnis, 1575).
Combinaties
2015.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
2030
Subgenre
mop