The constellation
X680 Jokes concerning various cities
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- Why Arabians are liars. Hermes and his wagon of lies break down in Arabia · X661 entry
- 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
- 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
- X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishes · X751 entry