The constellation
X500 Humor concerning other social classes
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- Jokes about travelers · X583 entry
- Jokes about hunters · X584 entry
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- Fortune-teller shows others how to get rich but remains poor himself. (Cf. J1062.) · X461.1 entry
- Jokes on fortune-tellers · X461 entry
- Humor concerning other professions · X460 entry
- Young man plowing corn sees letters "P. C." formed by clouds. He explains situation to minister, asks to be ordained. The minister explains that the letters mean "plow corn" instead of "preach Christ" · X459.1.1 entry
- Jokes concerning usurers · X510 entry
- Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard · X511 entry
- Usurers do not reply. The parson asks the various trades and professions to rise one by one for a special blessing. When he calls for the usurers none reply · X512 entry
- Devil will not carry usurers to hell but will drag them by the legs. So declares a youth paid by a usurer to protest against the priest's remarks that the devil would carry all usurers off · X513 entry