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X111 Deaf men and their answers
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- Humor of deafness · X110 entry
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- Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) · X111.1 entry
- Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way. Travelers ask their direction. Peasant thinks they want to buy oxen. Peasant's wife arrives; thinks they say her food is too salty. – Daughter-in-law and father-in-law misunderstand each other · X111.2 entry
- Two persons believe each other deaf. A trickster tells each of two persons before they meet that the other is hard of hearing and must be shouted at. A great shouting takes place, and each thinks the other out of his wits · X111.3 entry
- Deaf peasant: the wedding invitation. Lord: Good morning, Peter. Peasant: I come from Bingen. – L. What is the hog worth? – P. Two weeks from next Sunday (the wedding). – L. Shall I come to the wedding? – P. Three and a half gulden · X111.4 entry
- Deaf man on the bridge. Lord: Good day, Caspar. – Caspar: I am making a reel. – L. Good day, Caspar. – C. It is worth four pence. – L. Good day, Caspar. – C. Yes, my lord, whenever you wish · X111.5 entry
- The deaf man and the proud nobleman. A nobleman amuses himself at the expense of the deaf man. Finally Nobleman: I wish you a thousand gallows and ropes around your neck. – Peasant: My lord, I wish you twice as many · X111.6 entry
- Misunderstood words lead to comic results. In some the people are not really deaf but fail to catch a word; in some they are deaf · X111.7 entry
- The deaf man with the bird in the tree. A traveller asks the way and the man keeps telling him about the bird he has caught. (The questions and answers often rhyme.) · X111.8 entry
- Deaf man visits the sick. He plans the conversation with the expected answers. The answers turn out otherwise. A. How are you? – B. I am dead. – A. Thank God! What have you eaten? – B. Poison, I think. – A. I hope it agrees with you · X111.9 entry
- "Good day." – "A woodchopper." The workman answers the traveler's courtesies with remarks about his work. (Cf. X111.8.) · X111.10 entry
- Buyer and deaf seller · X111.11 entry
- The deaf parson. The youth answers unintelligibly but is praised nevertheless · X111.12 entry
- The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." · X111.13 entry
- Deaf litigants and deaf judge misunderstand one another. (Cf. X111.1.) · X111.14 entry
- Travelers pass through Wesley. One asks name of town; another replies, "This is Wesley." Another says, "I thought it was Thursday." Third says, "So am I; let's have a drink." · X111.15 entry
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- Deaf Persons and their Foolish Answers · ATU 1698