Beschrijving
The Healing of the Injured Animal (previously The Cock’s Whiskers). (Including the previous Type 2032A.) An animal (mouse) is wounded (by another animal) and asks for help. He is told that this will happen only if he brings a particular object (fulfills some other request). The injured animal has to ask someone else for this object. This develops into a chain of demands and counter-requests, until finally someone (thing) agrees without a counter-request. The animal is treated for his injury, or else he dies before all the requests are granted [Z43].
In Spanish and Portuguese variants, a toad asks a magpie to throw something (a nut) down from a tree. The magpie is afraid its beak will break, but the toad promises to repair it. The beak breaks and the toad goes after horsehair to mend it. He is sent to fulfill other requests, until finally someone does not make a counter-request. Everyone in the chain gets what he or she wanted, and finally the toad brings the horsehair to the magpie [Z43.1.] (Previously Type 2032A.)
In Spanish and Portuguese variants, a toad asks a magpie to throw something (a nut) down from a tree. The magpie is afraid its beak will break, but the toad promises to repair it. The beak breaks and the toad goes after horsehair to mend it. He is sent to fulfill other requests, until finally someone does not make a counter-request. Everyone in the chain gets what he or she wanted, and finally the toad brings the horsehair to the magpie [Z43.1.] (Previously Type 2032A.)
Motief
Z43
Z43.1.
Combinaties
2021.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
2032
Subgenre
mop