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El tipo 1525A - Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring). se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El rey de Sarabia, por Camilo Villegas, de Amapa, Nayarit

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A good-for-nothing young man from a poor family learns the craft of stealing and comes home as a master thief. He (his father) boasts about his skill in front of the earl (godfather) [K301.1, F660.1, H915], who demands (usually) three tests [H1151]. (1) The master thief steals a horse (dog) out of a closely-guarded stall [H1151.2]. He disguises himself as an old woman (beggar) and gives liquor (a drug) to the farmhands (guards, soldiers) to make them sleep [K332]. (2) He steals the bedcover (shirt) and wedding ring of the earl's wife [H1151.3, H1151.4]. He contrives that the earl shoots a corpse (straw man) and goes to bury the body. The thief tells the earl's wife that the earl needs the blanket and ring for the corpse [K362.2]. (3) He traps the priest and the sexton in a sack (cf. Type 1737) and puts candles on the backs of crabs. The men take him for an angel and the lights for wandering souls (cf. Type 1740). He carries the sack to the goose house (hangs it in the bell tower or chimney). Cf. Type 1737. After these tests, the master thief is banished from the country (pardoned, rewarded). Cf. Type 328.

Combinations: This type is usually combined with one or more other types, esp. 950, 1525D, 1535, 1737, and also 653, 804B, 1004, 1071, 1072, 1084, 1525B, 1525E, 1539, 1735, and 1740.

Remarks:The full form of the tale is documented in the Renaissance by Straparola, Piacevoli notti (1, 2).

(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.)