The abbot burns his mouth. Says that he is crying because so many have left the monastery — Mythoi

Motif

The abbot burns his mouth. Says that he is crying because so many have left the monastery.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1478.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died."

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