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- Producing the Weather

Producing the Weather (previously In Trial Sermon the Parson Promises the Laymen the Kind of Weather they Want). A congregation needs to appoint a new clergyman (sexton). They choose one who says he can produce whatever weather that they want. However, they cannot agree what the weather should be: one group wants rain, and another, sunshine. The new clergyman suggests that they let God decide what the weather should be (that it should be the same with the weather as it was before) [J1041.1]. Cf. Type 752B.

J1041.1

Aesopic fable (Perry 1965, 439f. No. 94).

1830

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