FFC 90
750—849 Religious tale.
97
| *834. | Old woman dies. Husband puts candles on her grave every night and prays. He finds hare scratching at cemetery gate. He opens gate and it escapes. Second night hare appears and tells him it commands in this cemetery and no one enters there without its permission. Third night hare tells him it is useless to pray and place candles on grave since his wife is condemned. nc 1. ECPE no 97. | |
| *835. | I. | Skull or ghost is invited to dine; accepts the invitation and invites the host to dine with it the following night. Cf Mt 470 I. |
| II. | a) He goes to dine with skull or ghost but is saved from perdition by carrying cross, relics, etc.; or b) by grateful dead. Cf Mt 505—Mt 508 for grateful dead. | |
| an 1. ECPE no 80: I, II a. as 1. LRAC no 28: I, II a b. nc 1. ECPE no 79: I, II a. oc 1. MPEL p. 127 no III: I. | ||
| 836. | Pride, disrespect, avarice, bad temper, selfishness, curiosity, slander are punished. | |
| *A. | (Hungarian Mt 753 I:) Traveller is asked where he is going. He replies he is going home. He is turned into a frog until he is willing to say, "I am going home, if God so wills". an 1. COAR p. 88 = HCVK p. 190 = CST p. 181. | |
| *B. | Carnival revelers do not stop dancing or unmask when Church official passes by. When they finally wish to stop and unmask they cannot. Thus they continue dancing for several days and become negroes [Q 222]. as 1. BTPE VIII 128. | |
| *C. | Fine black hen comes and lays a large white egg every day. Finally she ceases to lay and woman will no longer feed her. Hen says she will not lay unless fed, and flies out the window. Woman conclu- | |
