FFC 90
1200—1999 Joke and anecdote.
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a different place, but second bean tells her the same; and so with third bean. She reforms. oc 1. ECPE no 46. | |
| B. | Girl cooks chicken for father but it tastes so good she eats it and cuts off a piece of her buttock [G 60] which she serves father for chicken [K 492]. Cock sings and reveals the fraud [B 131]; also father sees blood running from girl. She confesses truth. le 1. ECPE no 47. |
| *1375. | Husband encourages lazy wife to spin. He hides behind saint's statue and tells her to spin or weed [K 1971]. She makes excuses. She dies and he wraps her body in rags or cornhusks for burial; or, he ridicules her publicly by showing how much more actively her stomach handles food than her fingers handle flax. Cf Mt 1405. as 1. LRAC no 98. 2. LRAC no 99. 3. CTA p. 200. 4. LRAC no 100. 5. LRAC no 101. 6. LRAC no 102. |
1380—1404 Foolish wife and her husband.
| 1380. | Mexico: Mason-Espinosa JAF XXVII 184 no 17. an 1. ECPE no 34 (Husband hides behind saint's statue and tells wife to feed him chicken and wine to make him blind. He gives priest and wife a beating). as 1. ECPE no 33 (Husband hides behind saint's statue and tells wife to feed him well. Priest furnishes the food. He throws both priest and wife into well). |
| 1381. | Cf Mt 1696 *A. Libro de los ejemplos no CCCXXXVIII. BLC II 213. |
| *A. | Man tests wife's power to keep a secret. He tells her he has just given birth to a crow; or that he |
