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El tipo 1538 - The Revenge of the Cheated Man (previously The Youth Cheated in Selling Oxen). se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El huevero, por María Reynoso de Navarro, de Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A youth (farmer, fool) goes to the market to sell cattle (fowl, eggs). On the way he meets a trickster (monk, robber, landlord, judge) who convinces him that his cattle are not worth very much. He sells (is compelled to sell) them for a very low price [K132]. Cf. Type 1551. The youth resolves to revenge himself on the trickster. He disguises himself as a beggar-woman (bride, carpenter, woodcutter, builder) and tricks him so that the trickster lets himself be tied to a tree [K713.1] and the youth is able to beat him. The trickster goes to get medical help. The youth disguises himself as a doctor and beats him again (in a monastery, bathhouse, robbers' den) [K1825.1.3]. In the end the youth takes his cattle back and also gets some money. In some variants, instead of one trickster, the youth takes revenge on many (seven, twelve, forty).

Combinations: 1525A, 1535, 1539, and 1551.

Remarks:Documented in an Akkadian version from 711 B.C.E., The Poor Man of Nippur.

(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.)