Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed

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Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Religious animals. · view the constellation · filed as B259.1

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

HebrewGaster Exempla 228 No. 235
JewishNeuman.

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Filed under Miscellaneous religious animals.

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