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El tipo 1688 - The Servant to Improve on the Master's Statements. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El capitán y el asistente, por Victoriano Robledo, de Acatic, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A wealthy suitor wants to impress a young woman whom he is wooing. He engages a friend (servant) not only to attest to his wealth but to double the worth of all things he names. When the suitor admits that he has a weakness (weak eye, cough), the friend exaggerates and says that he cannot see at all, or that he coughs even more at night [J2464]. This upsets the bride and she calls off the marriage. Cf. Types 859, 1920E.

Remarks:Documented in the Scala coeli (No. 694) of Johannes Gobi Junior.

(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.)