Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritance

Motif

Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritance.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P236.2

Scholars’ trail — 10references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

SpanishBoggs FFC XC 116 No. 980A
Italian Novella*Rotunda
India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesiaJeynball Catalogus Maleische en Sundaneesche Hss. 173, ibid. Supplement Catalogus Javaansche en Madoereesche Hss. 22.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 435
general Scala Celi 98b No. 528
general Dunlop-Wilson II 185f.
general von der Hagen II lviii No. 49
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 1290. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2452*
general Palestine: Schmidt-Kahle Volkserzählungen aus Palästina II No. 123

Within the index

Filed under Undutiful children.

Filed beside it

Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him Not daring to curse father directly, son does so indirectly Son deposes father and usurps throne Undutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and naked Undutiful son overawes his father by threats Undutiful son taught lesson showing his mother has suffered from him

Carried in tale types

The Pretended Inheritance (previously Supposed Chest of Gold Induces Children to Care for Aged Father) · ATU 9821 recorded variant

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