Beschrijving
The Same Old Story. This tale exists chiefly in two different forms:
(1) A man goes to church on Good Friday (Christmas Eve) and hears the sermon. The next year, he goes again on that day (his son goes forty years later) and hears the same sermon. He complains that they are telling the same old story over again.
(2) In Jewish variants, an old woman is so affected by the story of Joseph and his brothers that she stops eating and becomes ill. A year later she is recovered. She goes to the synagogue and hears the same text. She decides not to fall ill a second time.
(1) A man goes to church on Good Friday (Christmas Eve) and hears the sermon. The next year, he goes again on that day (his son goes forty years later) and hears the same sermon. He complains that they are telling the same old story over again.
(2) In Jewish variants, an old woman is so affected by the story of Joseph and his brothers that she stops eating and becomes ill. A year later she is recovered. She goes to the synagogue and hears the same text. She decides not to fall ill a second time.
Motief
X435.4
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
1833F
Subgenre
mop