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El tipo 1678 - The Boy Who Had Never Seen a Woman. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El ranchero pajón, por María de Jesús Navarro de Aceves, de Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: After his mother dies, a boy is brought up in seclusion and never sees a woman. When he is fourteen (eighteen) years old, his father takes him to the nearest town. There he sees girls for the first time, and he asks what sort of creatures (animals) they are. His father says they are little devils (geese). The boy asks his father to buy some to take home. Or, someone asks what he liked best and he replies, "The devils". [T371]. Cf. Type 1545B.

Remarks:Documented in the Indian Barlaam and Josaphat (ch. 29); an early European version can be found in Jacques de Vitry, Sermones vulgares (Jacques de Vitry / Crane, No. 82).

(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.)