Drei listige Gesellen (<1400)
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Maere and Novellas
Drei listige Gesellen (<1400)
Fischer, H.: Die deutsche Märendichtung des 15. Jahrhunderts. (=MTU 12) München 1966. Nr. 43, p. 372–377.
DrlG-1:
Three penniless companions decide to get a good meal. At the start they look for a hostel in a town, and then the first sets out to acquire some wine. He goes out with two bottles; one filled with water, the other empty. He finds a wine cellar, where he has the empty bottle filled. He asks the host to come to their hostel for payment. The host, angry at this outrageous suggestion, takes the bottle away from him – but instead ends up with the bottle of water.
Motif References:
K 231.6.2.1 Trickster returns a bottle of water instead of the bottle of rum he has just purchased
K 233 Trickster escapes without paying
K 330 Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner
K 343.1.1 Bread dropped in mud, messenger returns for more. A youth poses as a rich man’s servant and gets as sack of bread from a baker. The baker boy is top go along and collect. The rascal drops two loaves in the mud and sends the boy back for fresh ones. Meantime he runs off with the rest of the bread.
DrlG-107:
The third goes to the fish market. He pretends to be a monastery servant and buys fish. He brings the fisher boy to the church and tells him to fetch the money from the priest in the confessional, and then he runs away. The fisher boy demands his money and after a while turns violent. The oncoming monks think he is possessed and exorcise him painfully, until he forgets his demands. Epimythion: No one is to trust the wolf on the heath, the oath of the peasant, or the consciousness of nobility, because the world is unfaithful. This is said to have happened in Konstanz.
Motif References:
K 242 Creditor falsely reported insane when he demands money
K 249 Deceptions in payment of debt – miscellaneous
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