Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales

1791: The sexton carries the parson

ATU > 1200-1999: ANECDOTES AND JOKES > 1725-1849: Jokes about Clergymen and Religious Figures > 1775-1799: Clergyman and Sexton > 1791: The sexton carries the parson

Description

Thieves steal a sheep or turnips. The lame parson has himself carried by the sexton. The sexton hears the thieves in the cemetery cracking nuts and thinks it is the devil cracking bones. With the gouty parson on his back he comes upon the thieves…

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External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Year	Source
3.12.	1791	Netherlands	1893	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Bag of Nuts	1791	British		Internet Archive
Black and his Master	1791	British		Internet Archive
Churchyard	1791	English		Internet Archive
De glêzene skonk	1791	Netherlands	1951	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Dit is één foor mij en dat één foor dij	1791	Netherlands	1973	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Dividing Souls	1791	African-American		Internet Archive
Mother Elston's Nuts	1791	British		Internet Archive
Old Woman who cracked Nuts	1791	British		Internet Archive
Three in One	1791	British		Internet Archive
Two Tailors	1791	British		Internet Archive
Van den man die noten telde op het kerkhof.	1791	Netherlands	1891	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank

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