FFC 90
300—749 Magic tale.
71
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Mexico: Mason JAF XXV 194 no 3. Porto Rico: Mason-Espinosa JAF XXXVIII 551 no 5; XXXIX 248 no 18. | ||
| 551. | Eldest son sets out to find the three wonders of the world to cure his sick father, but is captured by robbers. Same happens to second brother. Third is directed by wind, sun, moon, king of birds and finally eagle carries him to palace of the three wonders. He gives an old woman money to pay for her husband's burial. A fox tells him to choose one of the things he sees, which are a bird, cage, lady, bed, horse in stable. Boy takes bird and starts to take cage but giant's soldiers seize him and put him in lions' den. Fox releases him. He takes lady and starts to take her dresses, but he is seized again. Again fox releases him and tells him to take only horse. He does and finds bird and lady already outside. His brothers take the three wonders away from him and accuse him of robbing and murdering. He is sentenced to hang, but fox comes in form of man and tells king truth and reveals himself as man for whose burial boy provided. King makes boy his heir. Cf Mt 301 VI, Mt 505—Mt 508 and Mt 750 B. A. Durán, Romancero general, nos 1263 and 1264; see BP II 398. oc 1. ECPE no 143. | |
| 554. | II *h Task: princess throws her handkerchief high into tree and asks hero to stop and get it [H 933]. an' 1. COAR p. 23: Mt 506 I a + Mt 531 I a, II b, III a + Mt 554 I b (Ant, eagle, fish), II b *h c + Mt 531 IV *d b. nc 1. ECPE no 140: Mt 531 I a *d + Mt 554 I b (Ant, eagle, whale), II g + Mt 531 IV *d b. | |
| 555. | A. de Trueba, Cuentos de vivos y muertos, pp. 13 and 71; see BP I 145. Porto Rico: Mason-Espinosa JAF XXXVIII 611 no 13. | |
