The constellation
J2328 The moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over it
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Nature of gullibility · J2310 entry
carried in tale type
- Moving the Church · ATU 1326
filed beside
- Person made to believe that he is dead · J2311 entry
- Naked person made to believe that he is clothed · J2312 entry
- Layman made to believe that he is a monk · J2314 entry
- Wife persuades husband that she has returned immediately. She goes to a neighbor's to cook a fish. She is gone a week. She gets a new fish and cooks it and returns home with the hot fish. She convinces her husband of her short absence · J2315 entry
- Husband made to believe that his house has moved during his absence. The wife and her confederates transform the house into an inn with tables, signs, drinkers, etc. The husband cannot find his house · J2316 entry
- Well man made to believe that he is sick · J2317 entry
- Numskull convinced that he is a thief. An article is stolen. Declared that whoever does not eat all his cheese is the thief. A stone is put in the numskull's cheese so that he cannot eat it all. He admits the theft · J2318 entry
- Man made to believe that he is pregnant (has borne child) · J2321 entry
- Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heaven · J2322 entry
- Numskull believes that he is married to a man. Two men's hands joined in fun with words "I marry you." Fool thinks that he must get a bishop to annul the marriage · J2323 entry