ספר הבדיחה והחדוד
אלתר דרוינוב
רשימת הסיפורים
עם מוטיבים סיפוריים
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מוטיב |
מספר |
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Magnetic stone. |
F806 | |
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What is strongest? Woman. |
H631.4 | |
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Other riddles. |
H840 | |
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Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from experience. |
J10 | |
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Plea by showing great temptation to crime. |
J1165 | |
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Plea by showing great temptation to crime. |
J1165 | |
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Execution evaded by using three wishes. King ordains that guest who turns his plate shall be executed, but orders that anyone so condemned shall have three wishes granted. One of the wishes: to have all blinded who saw him turn the plate. He is freed. |
J1181.1 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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Quibbling answers. E.g., Where are you going? - Forward. Where are you going to cut the tree? - At the foot. |
J1252 | |
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'Better a live confessor than a dead martyr.'' So answers a preacher when asked whether he preferred to stay at home and confess his flock or go to war against the infidels. |
J1261.9 | |
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Christians have a merciful God. Jew so decides when he thinks of the scandalous life of the court of Rome. |
J1263.3 | |
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Transmutation of the quail. Bishop brought quail on Friday orders them cooked. Blamed. If he can turn bread into the body of the Lord why can he not turn quail into fish? |
J1269.5 | |
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The child born too soon. |
J1276 | |
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The child born too soon. |
J1276 | |
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The child born too soon. |
J1276 | |
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Suitor hesitates to marry girl as immature (or too delicate). Girl's father protests, saying that she has had three children. |
J1279.3 | |
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Suitor hesitates to marry girl as immature (or too delicate). Girl's father protests, saying that she has had three children. |
J1279.3 | |
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Gifts from the brothers. A king gives a man a coin. ''Is that all you give your brother?'' ''Are you my brother?'' ''Surely, we both pray, Our father, etc.'' ''If all your brothers give you as much as I you will be rich.'' |
J1283 | |
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The watered wine. |
J1312 | |
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Will take care of the thirst. Doctors consult how to rid fever-stricken drunkard of his great thirst. ''You take care of the fever; I shall take care of the thirst.'' |
J1322.1 | |
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Prove me a liar. Beggar: ''Good day, you stingy fellows.'' They: ''We are not stingy fellows.'' Beggar: ''Then give and prove me a liar.'' |
J1333 | |
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Asking costs nothing. So says beggar who asks goldsmith to plate his club with gold. |
J1338 | |
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Asking costs nothing. So says beggar who asks goldsmith to plate his club with gold. |
J1338 | |
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Retorts from hungry persons. |
J1340 | |
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The account-book of mistakes. A king, hearing that a man keeps an account-book of people's mistakes asks to see about his own record. He reads that the king has made a mistake in trusting a certain sum of money to a servant. King: ''How if he comes back with it?'' ''I shall cross off your name and put him down for making a mistake.'' |
J1371 | |
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A three thousand year old debt. Guests in inn discuss reincarnation. ''Since we shall come back in three thousand years, the host might trust us till then.'' Host: ''You still owe me what you didn't pay three thousand years ago.'' |
J1384 | |
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The double fool. A numskull caught changing meal from others' sacks into his own. Miller asks him what he is doing. ''I am a fool.'' ''Why then don't you put your meal into their sacks?'' ''I am only a simple fool. If I did that I should be a double fool.'' |
J1393 | |
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The double fool. A numskull caught changing meal from others' sacks into his own. Miller asks him what he is doing. ''I am a fool.'' ''Why then don't you put your meal into their sacks?'' ''I am only a simple fool. If I did that I should be a double fool.'' |
J1393 | |
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A cynic's retorts. |
J1442 | |
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The cynic and the fig tree. Man tells friend that his wife has hanged herself on a fig tree. Friend: ''Give me a shoot of that tree!'' |
J1442.11 | |
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Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: ''I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died.'' |
J1478 | |
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Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: ''I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died.'' |
J1478 | |
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Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: ''Pardon me, I did not know it was you'' |
J1485 | |
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Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: ''Pardon me, I did not know it was you'' |
J1485 | |
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Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: ''Pardon me, I did not know it was you'' |
J1485 | |
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Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: ''Pardon me, I did not know it was you'' |
J1485 | |
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Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: ''Pardon me, I did not know it was you'' |
J1485 | |
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A rule must work both ways. |
J1511 | |
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One absurdity rebukes another. |
J1530 | |
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Sharing joy and sorrow. Man pledged to do so with his wife follows instructions literally. Beats her - a joy to him and a sorrow to her. |
J1541.1.1 | |
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Clothes thrown into the cooking food. A trickster when told that food cooking is clothes being boiled retaliates by throwing his dirty hose into the pot. |
J1561.1 | |
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Words in a foreign language thought to be insults. |
J1802 | |
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Numskulls lose corpse and bury live person instead. |
J1834 | |
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Nobody can move it. Foolish soldier at guard by cannon therefore quits. |
J1849.4 | |
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Absurd ignorance concerning place for animal to be kept. |
J1904 | |
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Absurd searches for the lost. |
J1920 | |
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Absurd searches for the lost. |
J1920 | |
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Dead man identified by his cough. Numskull asked to identify corpse tries to do so by his cough. |
J1937.1 | |
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Dead man identified by his cough. Numskull asked to identify corpse tries to do so by his cough. |
J1937.1 | |
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A healthy place for a tomb. Numskull objects to unhealthy place for his tomb. |
J1937.2 | |
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Uncertainty about own identity. |
J2010 | |
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Opium-smoker on journey asks his way about; ends up at his own house. |
J2027 | |
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Absurd inability to count. |
J2030 | |
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Keeping the measure by stretching out the arms. Numskull goes to buy goods for his wife. |
J2036 | |
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The foolish attempt to cheat the buyer. |
J2083 | |
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Seller of fox skins mixes otter skins with them. Thinks to cheat the buyer. |
J2083.3 | |
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Seller of fox skins mixes otter skins with them. Thinks to cheat the buyer. |
J2083.3 | |
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'Do not trust the over-holy'': counsel proved wise by experience. Wife so modest she will not travel with husband (adulteress); priest so pious he will not tread on worm (thief). |
J21.18 | |
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Disregard of danger to objects (or animals). |
J2120 | |
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Disastrous hesitation. |
J2183 | |
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The seventh cake satisfies. Fool regrets that he had not eaten number seven first since that was the one that brought satisfaction. |
J2213.3 | |
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The seventh cake satisfies. Fool regrets that he had not eaten number seven first since that was the one that brought satisfaction. |
J2213.3 | |
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Numskull finds that one feather makes a hard pillow, thinks a sackful would be unbearable. |
J2213.9 | |
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The inconvenience of having a father: The numskull to his father: ''If you had never been born I would get my grandfather's estate.'' |
J2222 | |
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The thief as discoverer. The fool lies still as the thief enters the house, hoping that the thief may find something so that he can take it back from the thief. |
J2223 | |
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The thief as discoverer. The fool lies still as the thief enters the house, hoping that the thief may find something so that he can take it back from the thief. |
J2223 | |
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Absurd scientific theories - general. |
J2260 | |
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Absurd scientific theories - general. |
J2260 | |
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Absurd theories concerning time. |
J2276 | |
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The smaller the evil the better. Therefore choose the smallest woman possible for a bride. |
J229.10 | |
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His wife has become a widow. Numskull buys cloth used only by widows and is therefore convinced. |
J2301.2 | |
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His wife has become a widow. Numskull buys cloth used only by widows and is therefore convinced. |
J2301.2 | |
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Fool appointed to fictitious office boasts of it. ''Administrador de la yesca.'' |
J2331.2 | |
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Testing the evidence by experiment: biting the ear off. The accused pleads that the plaintiff bit his own ear off. The judge takes time for consideration, tries to bite his own ear, but falls down and breaks his head. |
J2376 | |
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The philosophical watchman. A master sets his servant to keep watch over his horse at night. He soon asks the servant if he is asleep. ''No, I was thinking of who created so many stars in the sky.'' The second time the servant answers, ''No, I was thinking of who dug the sea. Where did he put the soil?'' The third time: ''I was wondering who would carry the saddle now that the horse is stolen.'' |
J2377 | |
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What will the robber do? A man curious as to what a robber is going to do waits to intervene and goes back to sleep. |
J2378 | |
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Foolish imitation - miscellaneous. |
J2420 | |
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Foolish imitation - miscellaneous. |
J2420 | |
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Foolish imitation - miscellaneous. |
J2420 | |
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Literal fool. |
J2450 | |
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Literal obedience. |
J2460 | |
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Metaphors literally interpreted. |
J2470 | |
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Metaphors literally interpreted. |
J2470 | |
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The numskull buys water at market. He looks at bread. The merchant: ''It is as good as butter.'' He decides on butter. The merchant: ''It is as sweet as oil.'' He decides on oil. The merchant: ''It is as clear as water.'' He decides on water. |
J2478 | |
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Religious words or exercises interpreted with absurd literalness. |
J2495 | |
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Religious words or exercises interpreted with absurd literalness. |
J2495 | |
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The silence wager. A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager. |
J2511 | |
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The fool and the visitor's large nose. The fool asks where he got the large nose. Is removed from the room. He comes back to mend matters. He says, ''What a small nose you have!'' He is again taken from the room. The third time: ''What difference does it make whether you have a nose or not?'' |
J2512 | |
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'Foresee the possible event.'' Asked to call a doctor when his master falls ill, fool also calls the undertaker. |
J2516.9 | |
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Thankful fools: Fool thanks God that he was not sitting on the ass when it was stolen. |
J2550 | |
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Thankful fools: Fool thanks God that he was not sitting on the ass when it was stolen. |
J2550 | |
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Thankful fools: Fool thanks God that he was not sitting on the ass when it was stolen. |
J2550 | |
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Thankful fools: Fool thanks God that he was not sitting on the ass when it was stolen. |
J2550 | |
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Thankful fools: Fool thanks God that he was not sitting on the ass when it was stolen. |
J2550 | |
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'Thank God that camels have no wings.'' They might fly about and kill people. |
J2564 | |
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The easy problem made hard. |
J2700 | |
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'What do I hold in my hand?'' (Ring). ''In its first state it was in the mountains; it is round and flat.'' Fool: ''A millstone.'' |
J2712 | |
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Foolish marriage of old man and young girl. |
J445.2 | |
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Foolish marriage of old man and young girl. |
J445.2 | |
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Foolish marriage of old man and young girl. |
J445.2 | |
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Father gives son three rings. Only one is good although they all look the same. Same with religions. |
J462.3.1.1 | |
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Wisdom (knowledge) taught by parable. |
J80 | |
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Wisdom of concessions to power. |
J811 | |
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Wisdom of concessions to power. |
J811 | |
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Wisdom of concessions to power. |
J811 | |
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Consolation by thinking of some good aspect of a situation. |
J865 | |
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Consolation by thinking of some good aspect of a situation. |
J865 | |
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Consolation by pretending that one does not want the thing he cannot have. |
J870 | |
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Men not chosen for their ignorance; else he should have reached heaven. Upbraided for not knowing answer to question, man answers that he was chosen for his position because of what he knew, not of what he did not know. |
J911.1 | |
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Hidden man behind image gives unwelcome answer to suppliant: image blamed. |
K1971.8 | |
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Appearance of Death exposes hypocrisy. |
K2065 | |
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Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer. |
K2313 | |
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Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer. |
K2313 | |
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Man orders a bottle of beer, then returns it and takes a loaf of bread instead. He refuses to pay for the bread because he has returned the beer undrunk. He refuses to pay for the beer because he has not drunk it. |
K233.4 | |
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Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. |
K236.2 | |
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Owner gives up goods through flattery. |
K334 | |
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Thief successfully claims that stolen goods are his own. |
K405.3 | |
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Enigmatical prophecy. |
M306 | |
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Enigmatical prophecy. |
M306 | |
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Enigmatical prophecy. |
M306 | |
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Persistent bad luck. |
N250 | |
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The faithless widow. |
T231 | |
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Minstrel throws wife into sea: her tongue the heaviest thing on board. Ordered to throw all heavy articles overboard. |
T251.1.5 | |
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Medicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angry. |
T256.2 | |
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Laziness. |
W111 | |
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Lie: remarkable bouncing rubber boots (or the like). |
X1021.1 | |
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Lies about cities. |
X1560 | |
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Lies about fog |
X1651 | |
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Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. |
X511 | |
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Usurer encourages sermons against usury, so that his competitors will cease activity. |
X516 | |
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Tales filled with contradictions. |
Z19.2 |