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El tipo 857 - The Louse-Skin. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El cuero de piojo, por Eduviges Reyes, de Amapa, Nayarit

La mata de hinojo y el cuero de piojo, por Catalina González, de Valle de Guadalupe, Jalisco

La mata de hinojo y el cuero de piojo, por Pablo Alcántar, de San Bartolo, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A louse that has been found on a princess (king) is fattened to an enormous size (becomes as big as a sheep, calf, ox) [B873.1, F983.2; cf. Type 1960M] and slaughtered. The king (princess, queen) displays the skin in public (has a dress, shoes, gloves made from it; has a chair or drum covered with it; has the louse's meat prepared) and announces, that whoever guesses the kind of animal the skin belongs to [H522.1.1] will receive half of the kingdom and also the princess in marriage [H511]. A (disguised) monster (real or false beggar, shepherd, animal, disguised robber, devil, cannibal ogre), who learns the secret by trickery [H573.3], guesses correctly and wins the princess. (Previously Type 621.) In some variants the princess is rescued from the monster's power. She escapes with a magic flight (with the assistance of supernatural or skillful helpers).

Combinations: This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 653, 900, and also 311, 425, 513A, and 570.

Remarks:Important version see Basile, Pentamerone (1, 5).

(Hans-Jörg Uther. The types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia-Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004.)