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

1792: The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig

ATU > 1200-1999: ANECDOTES AND JOKES > 1725-1849: Jokes about Clergymen and Religious Figures > 1775-1799: Clergyman and Sexton > 1792: The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig

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The stingy parson does not want to give anyone a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden overnight so as to make everyone think it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself.…

Variants

1792A. The Priest's Pig

A man going on a journey changes clothes on the way with another man. Latter is found drowned, and is buried as the first man. The first man's wife is to be re-married by the priest and is to give the priest a pig as payment. The priest sends his…

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External Examples

StoryATUOriginAuthorYearSource
De pastoar, de koster en de stellene baarch 1792 Netherlands 1973 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
De pastoor en zijn koster 1792 Netherlands 1970 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Van een Koster die de Pape het Vercken af gestoolen had. 1792 Netherlands 1659 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank

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