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X512 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
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- Jokes concerning usurers · X510 entry
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- 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
- 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
- Only usurers can carry the corpse of the usurer. It refuses to be moved by anyone else. (Cf. X521.) · X514 entry
- Usurer encourages sermons against usury, so that his competitors will cease activity · X516 entry