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El tipo 1641 - Doctor Know-All. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El zahorí de pasojos, por Cristóbal Reyes, de Valle de Guadalupe, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A farmer named Crab (Cricket, Rat) dresses as a doctor and calls himself Doctor Know-All [K1956]. In exchange for food and lodging for three days, he offers to discover who stole a ring (treasure) from a rich man (king). He is to be hanged if he fails. When servants enter the room (at the end of the three days), he says, "That is the first (second, third)". The servants believe he has discovered their theft, and admit to having stolen the ring [N611.1]. To prove his power, he must say what is inside a covered dish (closed fist). He has no idea and bemoans, "Poor Crab (Cricket, Rat)!" He is lucky that this is the right answer [N688]. He gives a purgative to a person whose horse had been stolen. When the person has to go outside, he discovers his missing horse [K1956.1]. Or Dr. Know-All hides the horse himself and then discovers it [K1956.2]. In variants from northern Europe, he becomes a clergyman. He impresses the local farmers with his short and incomprehensible sermons (when his pulpit suddenly collapses, because it had been sawed through. Cf. Type 1825C [K1961.1.3]).

Combinations: This type is usually combined with one or more other types, esp. 613, 1284, 1640, 1646, 1654, 1825, and 1825C.

Remarks:Indian origin, documented in the 11th century by Somaveda, Kathasaritsagara (No. 30) and Ksemendra, Brhatkatha-Mafijarr (VII, 313).

(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.)