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- Whose Cow Was Gored?

Whose Cow Was Gored? (An eye for an eye.) A sexton hears the preacher give a sermon about the biblical phrase, “an eye for an eye.” When the preacher’s cow gores the sexton’s cow with its horns and kills it, the sexton wants the preacher to give him a new cow. The preacher refuses. It would have been different, though, if the sexton’s cow had killed the preacher’s. Cf. Type 1589.

T455.3.1

Cf. Erasmus von Rotterdam, Opera Omnia (V,927).

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