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El tipo 670 - The Man Who Understands Animal Languages (previously The Animal Languages). se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El burro y el buey, por María del Refugio González, de Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A grateful snake gives a man the power to understand animal languages [B350, B491.1, B165.1, B216], and tells him that if he reveals the secret, he must die [C425]. Once the man hears animals talking and laughs. His curious wife insists on knowing why he does so [N456]. Worn down by her nagging, he is about to give in and tell her [T253.1]. Then he hears a rooster say how easily he rules his many wives, while the man cannot rule even his one wife [N451, B469.5, T252.2]. The man keeps his secret and does not tell her anything. Cf. Types 517, 671, and 673.

Combinations: 207 A, 671.

Remarks:Seemingly of Indian origin with European literary versions from the Middle Ages, e.g. Gesta Romanorum (nos. 55, 61, 84) and later in the Italian novella, see Girolamo Morlini (No. 71).

(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.)