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El tipo 461 - Three Hairs from the Devil's Beard. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

Los tres pelos del diablo, por Francisco Cornejo Romo, de Jalostotitlán, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A poor young man wants to marry the daughter of a king (rich man). Her father tries to get rid of the young man by sending him to the devil (ogre) to bring him three hairs of the devil's beard [H1273.2]. On his way some objects and animals ask the young man to ask the devil some questions [H1291]. A well wants to know why it has dried up, a tree wants to know why it is withered and the ferryman who rows the hero to the devil wants to know when he will be replaced. With the help of the devil's mother (grandmother, wife) [G530.1], who asks her son when she louses him or when he is asleep, the young man gets the three hairs and the answers to his questions [H1292]. The ferryman has to give the oar to someone else [Q521.5], the spring of the well is blocked by a frog [A1111], and the roots of the tree are damaged by a treasure (snake). For his answers and help the young man receives a large reward, and the king has to accept him as son-in-law. The greedy king also wants to get treasures on the way to the devil, but he becomes the replacement for the ferryman [P413.1.1].

Combinations: This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 930, and also 302, 460B, 531, 550, 563, 1000, 1002, 1003 and 1008.

Remarks:More than half of the variants begin with Type 930 as an introductory episode.

(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.)