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R. S. Boggs, Index of Spanish Folktales.
FFC 90
1725—[1845] Parson.
1725—[1799] Betrayed.
| 1725. | as 1. LRAC no 107 (Wife's lover hides in wardrobe. Servant, knowing he is there, says master has ordered wardrobe sold, takes it to bridge and threatens to throw it into river if no one buys it. Wife buys it for high price. Likewise she buys chest. Servant covers master's horses with sheets. Wife believes them to be lover's white horses and takes lunch there. Master invites lover to eat with him. Servant tells lover master threatens to stone him. Master picks up coins servant has dropt. Lover thinks master has discovered truth and flees. Wife is good again and servant never tells). |
| 1730. | as 1. ECPE no 32: Mt 1730 (Wife invites three friars at different times; locks them up and husband kills them) + Mt 1536 B. nc 1. ECPE no 31: Mt 1730 (Wife invites three friars at different times and hides them in different places. Husband kills them) + Mt 1536 B. |
| 1735. | Libro de los ejemplos no LXVIII. |
| *A. | Priest's cow wanders to poor man's door at night. Man kills it and feeds his family with the meat. Man's child sings the secret; priest hears and offers child new shoes if it will sing same in church on Sunday. But man teaches his child another verse about priest and man's wife which it sings in church. Priest discredits child's statement [K 1221]. as 1. LRAC no 69. |
| *B. | Poor man steals priest's pig and kills it. He puts it in cradle and rocks it when police come in search of it. He says, "May I eat what I am rocking if it is in my house". Police go away satisfied and man eats pig [K 537]. as 1. LRAC no 70. |
