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

839: One Vice Carries Other With It

ATU > 750-849: RELIGIOUS TALES > 827-849: Other Religious Tales > 839: One Vice Carries Other With It

Description

A man is permitted to choose one of the following vices: theft, incontinence, drink. He chooses the last, which seemed to him least harmful. All the other vices follow in the train of the first. [J485].

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External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Author	Year	Source
Hermit and the Devil	839	German			Internet Archive
Historie van Jan van Beverley	839	Netherlands		1512	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank

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