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El tipo 759 - Angel and Hermit (previously God's Justice Vindicated) [J225.0.1]. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

Santa Teresita, por Pedro Lomelí, de Mezcala, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A saint (Moses, Rabbi Joshua Ben Levi, St. Peter, hermit) doubts God's justice and blames him for sending suffering to virtuous people and well-being to bad ones. Or, a saint asks God for the reason for his decisions, an angel asks a saint (hermit) to accompany him to see God's secret decisions, or, an angel and a hermit meet and decide to travel together. The angel (God's messenger) forbids his companion to speak or to ask questions [C410, C411.1, C423.2, C491]. On their way the angel does many seemingly unjust and cruel things: he kills the child and / or the servant of a hospitable host and a man he meets in the street [J225.4, J225.5]; he repays hospitality by stealing a cup [J225.3], inhospitality by giving a cup (present); he repays an inhospitable person by constructing a house (rebuilding a fallen wall); he destroys the house (harvest) of hospitable people; he damages (sinks) a ship because of one sinner on board [J225.0.2, U21.3]; he kills the only cow of a poor woman; he offers good wishes to inhospitable people, and bad wishes to hospitable ones. Later the angel explains why each of these strange deeds was just. When the hermit sees the justification for each deed, he agrees that none of God's acts should be blamed or doubted. God's deeds are always justified. Cf. Types 759*, 840.

Remarks:Theodicy legend, cf. Koran (18, 65-82).

(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.)