The constellation
X661 Why Arabians are liars. Hermes and his wagon of lies break down in Arabia
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- Learning the Bavarian language. A caretaker of an estate recently sold to a Bavarian sits among the swine so as to learn Bavarian · X652 entry
- Battle between lice of Strassburg and of Hungary. Hungarians win · X651 entry
- Jokes concerning other races or nations · X650 entry
- Trickster breaks up Jewish marriage ceremony and seduces the bride. (Cf. K1371.) · X613 entry
- Jokes concerning various cities · X680 entry
- Blason populaire. Despiteful names used by one city for another · X681 entry
- Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] · X700 entry
- Jokes on old maids · X750 entry