Beschrijving
The Climax of Horrors. A man who has been away for a long time asks an acquaintance for news from home. The acquaintance tells him that his dog (raven) is dead. The man asks why, and is told that that it ate too much horse (camel) flesh. The horse had been burned in its stall (died from exertion during a fire); the barn caught fire from the house; the fire had been started by candles in the house; the candles burned on the occasion of the death of the man’s mother (wife) [Z46]. Cf. Types 1931, 2014.
Motief
Z46
Commentaar
Documented in the 11th century as an Arabian anecdote. Early European literary source, see Petrus Alfonsus, Disciplina clericalis (No. 27). Parts of the tale in the 1st century C.E. in Plutarch (Vitae, 816f.).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
2040
Subgenre
mop