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

1431: The contagious yawns

ATU > 1200-1999: ANECDOTES AND JOKES > 1350-1439: Stories about Married Couples > 1430-1439: The Foolish Couple > 1431: The contagious yawns

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A husband planning to punish his wife, who has yawned in church at the same time as a man, sees his error when his wife in the woods calls out, »The squirrels hop from bough to bough as the yawns from mouth to mouth.» [J1448].

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