{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas108n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas108n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas108n.htm","text":"See note to number 106. The story is a version of Hans Anderson's Big Claus and Little Claus, Grimm 61; Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka 2:1-18 and contains three episodes. (1) \"Little Begum\" tricks \"Big Begum\" into killing his oxen to get gold. (2) and (3) He exchanges places in the bag, gets a drove of sheep, and tricks \"Big Begum\" into getting himself drowned in the same bag, as in number 107.\n(1) Episode F in Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka's analysis. This informant's stories were not well motivated; the version does not explain how \"Little Begum\" sold the pretended magic hide. In Arcin, 475-476, Zeltner, 62-72, and Parsons, Andros Island, 86, the episode is accompanied by the trick of the life-giving staff (G' and see number 106); in Edwards, 95-96, by the trick of the dead mother pretended slain (G\" and see number 135).\n(2) and (3) In Fortier, 88-89, as in this version, (1) is accompanied by the bag trick, episodes H and J in Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka's analysis. See also number 23.\nCompare the \"Pedro Ordimales\" cycle in Recinos, JAFL 31:474-477.","title":"Note 108. Big Begum and Little Begum.","type":"page"}