The constellation
J229 Choice between evils – miscellaneous
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- Choice between evils · J210 entry
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- Choice: staying at home with loving wife or going to tavern and having unfaithful wife. Man chooses latter · J229.1 entry
- Sheep and ignorant shearer. Had rather die than suffer longer from him · J229.2 entry
- Choice: a big piece of cake with my curse or a small piece with my blessing · J229.3 entry
- Better send an ugly woman to the devil than a pretty one. Man chooses ugly mistress · J229.4 entry
- Choice between bad master, bad official, or bad neighbor. Bad master can do evil if he desires to do so; bad official can harm a poor person and complain against him to his master; bad neighbor can betray secret things about his neighbors. Bad neighbor worst · J229.5 entry
- Bad choice between poor and miserly man. Neither makes good leader · J229.6 entry
- Rower prefers to be stoned by his master rather than remain out in the storm · J229.7 entry
- Contentment with evil master for fear of worse successor · J229.8 entry
- Man retains questionable bride for fear of getting one who is worse · J229.9 entry
- The smaller the evil the better. Therefore choose the smallest woman possible for a bride · J229.10 entry
- Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge · J229.11 entry
- Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding · J229.12 entry
- God's punishment: the sinner may have twelve years of famine or twelve hours of heavy rainfall · J229.13 entry
- Physical pain preferred to poverty · J229.14 entry