FFC 90
750—849 Religious tale.
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her only son, or to a butcher who shelters murderer of his father. | |
| *E. | One Christian shelters poor, another prays for souls, a third hears mass every day. They discuss which of them has most merit before God. They meet a man in road and ask him to be judge. He tells each to go into woods by different road, stop where night finds him, and return next day for answer. First spends night in cave where a hand provides food and bed; second, at foot of cliff surrounded by reptiles; third, in tree which becomes covered with sweet scented flowers, several of which he puts into his pocket. Stranger tells first that hand of Charity served him; second that reptiles were his sins, for he had misused money collected for souls; third that he should take the flowers from his pocket and on so doing he finds but one, which represents only mass he has heard with devotion. as 1. LRAC no 111. |
| *758. | Eve's children are divided into different social classes by God [A 1650.1]. an 1. CCPA 1858 p. 127 = Ausgewählte Werke, transl. by L. G. Lemcke 14, 164. 1862; see BP III 320. |
| A. | God took all the bad people to Heaven, tied them to a rope, hung them down and asked St. Peter to hold the rope while He went to say mass. St. Peter heard him say "Sursum corda" and thought he said "Suelta la cuerda", so he let go the rope and all the bad people fell down to earth and were crippled in one way or another. Thus all wicked people are afflicted with some physical defect [A 1338]. ex 1. FBE p. 57. |
