Beschrijving
“How Many Sacraments Are There?” (Including the previous Type 1810A*.) A clergyman asks a boy (servant girl) how many sacraments (gods) there are. The boy does not know, so he asks in return if the clergyman knows how many teeth a rake has (how much cloth can be made from a certain amount of flax, how to braid a straw hat). The clergyman does not know the answer, and the boy tells him that one person cannot know everything.
To the question of the number of gods, a member of the congregation (farmer, child) answers a number that is too high. The clergyman refuses to continue with the person’s confirmation (sends the person home). The candidate repeats the question to another person who tells him that there is only one God. The candidate cannot believe that the clergyman would want so small a number as this for the answer. (Previously Type 1810A*.)
To the question of the number of gods, a member of the congregation (farmer, child) answers a number that is too high. The clergyman refuses to continue with the person’s confirmation (sends the person home). The candidate repeats the question to another person who tells him that there is only one God. The candidate cannot believe that the clergyman would want so small a number as this for the answer. (Previously Type 1810A*.)
Motief
X435.5
Commentaar
Documented in 1709 by U. Dorffgast, Curiöse Bauer-Historien (Tomkowiak 1987, 76).
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1832D*
Subgenre
mop