How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins is a Sri Lankan fairy tale collected by H. Parker in Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon.[1]
It is Aarne–Thompson type 982, "The Pretended Inheritance".[2]
Synopsis
editA man marries a rich woman who did not help his mother. He gives his mother a bag full of pottery shards. The mother contracts leprosy, but since she shakes the bags where the daughter-in-law can hear and announces that whoever cares for it will have, the daughter-in-law tends her. After the mother dies, the woman realizes it was shards, not coins.
Variants
editA medieval variant can be found in Disciplina Clericalis by Petrus Alfonsus. It's No.36 in the collection.[3]
A Cossack variant was translated by Robert Nisbet Bain and included in Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.[4]
References
edit- ^ Parker, H. (1914). Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Vol. 3. London: Luzac and Company. pp. 240–242.
- ^ Uther, Hans-Jorg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Academia Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 613–614.
- ^ Uther, Hans-Jorg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Academia Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 613–614.
- ^ Bain, Robert (1915). Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. London: George G. Harrap. pp. 219–225. Retrieved 2 April 2023.