During the sermon the priest demands the gift promised him by a woman at confession; the woman answers that the priest himself admitted often committing such sins.
The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest the guest has stolen two chickens [K2137]. The priest runs after him crying, »Give me at least one of them.»
The rascal puts burning candles on the backs of the crayfish. The parson and sexton think them the souls of the dead. He robs them meanwhile. [K335.0.5.1].
A sick parson is made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it.…
The smith, who is sick, sends for the parson, whoAT first refuses to come on account of bad weather. When he arrives the smith says that he has dreamed that he went to heaven, where St. Peter would not admit him before he saw a priest. There were no…
The boys do no mowing the whole day. »May the grass grow up again! May the gold in the purse turn to wasps!» A parson is known for being unusually stingy. He sends his boys to the meadow to mow, and they do nothing. On the way home one of them takes…
The sexton steals the priest's cow. The next day the sexton's son sings, »My father stole the priest's cow.» The priest pays the boy to sing in church. But the sexton teaches the boy a new song, »The priest has lain with my mother» and this is sung…
The parson preaches from this text, and a peasant tests it by giving the parson a cow, which brings all the parson's cows back home with her [K366.1.1]. A quarrelarises over the cows and it is agreed that the man who can say »good morning» to the…
Eye for eye. A bell-ringer hears a priest preach an eye for an eye, etc. When the priest's cow gores the bell-ringer's cow to death the latter demands the priest's cow in exchange. The priest refuses. But it would have been different if it had been…
By playing upon their desire for the pretty shoes he has stolen [T455.3.2], he betrays the wife, the daughter, and the servant girl of the parson [K1357] and finally the parson himself, who is standing by his side. Healing of the scab; holding the…