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| B. | as 1. CTA p. 187 (Girls' sweethearts kill soldiers who have come to call on them. They employ halfwit to carry bodies to lime pit. They reward him with a new cap). 2. ECPE no 32: Mt 1730 + Mt 1536 B (Husband kills monks who come to see his wife. Fool burns last body. Another monk comes and fool chases him with razor). nc 1. ECPE no 31: Mt 1730 + Mt 1536 B (Husband kills friars who come to see his wife. After drowning the bodies, fool meets priest on ass and, believing it is same one he drowned, chases him into river where he drowns). | |
| 1537. | Guatemala: Recinos JAF XXXI 473 no 2. Porto Rico: Mason-Espinosa JAF XXXIV 181 no 4. | |
| *A. | Foolish brother chokes mother to death with cornmeal. He sets her at spinning wheel. Clever brother returns, embraces her, she falls on floor and strikes her head. He believes he has killed her and places her in priest's fig tree. Priest shoots her in rage; gives his farm to clever brother as hush money. Foolish brother demands his share. He gets the cornstalks while clever brother keeps the ears; gets leaves while clever brother keeps potatoes. He retires with his sheep to mountains. Cf Mt 9 B and Mt 1030 for crop division. as 1. CTA p. 169. | |
| *B. | Drunkard kills wife and places her in cabbage patch. Owner shoots her. He gives drunkard 8,000 reales hush money. By same process drunkard gets 1,000 reales from owner of cherry orchard. He places wife's body on priest's horse. Sacristan tells priest Devil is on his horse. Priest calls on people to conjure Devil. Horse starts after mare on which priest rides to church; mounts her and thus they | |
