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Motif

Imagined penance for imagined sin. A penitent confesses that a plan to sin had entered his mind. Priest tells him that the thought is as good as the deed. Assesses four florins as penance. Penitent says that he had only had it in his mind to give the florins; he must take the thought for the deed.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: borrowers and lenders. · view the constellation · filed as J1551.2

Cited in the index
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 298
  • general *Wesselski Gonnella 110 No. 10
  • general *Fischer-Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 210.
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Filed under Imaginary debt and payment.

Filed beside it
Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror Singer repaid with promise of reward: words for words Directions for getting pay given in return for directions for healing Substitute for candle repaid with substitute for money. A monk gives a man a stick instead of the candle the man has wanted to burn before a holy picture. The monk says that it will have the same effect as if the candle were burned. The man takes out his purse and lets the monk touch it The hare at third remove. A man receives a present of a hare. Later a crowd comes to him for entertainment saying that they are friends of the man who presented the hare. This happens a second time. He serves them clear water. "It is the soup from the soup of the hare." Imagined ownership: derived from a dream. Man claims ownership of bulls because he has dreamed of them. He is given their shadows Imagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paid Half of money thrown into tank. The monkey to the grocer: "You sold half water and half milk." The priest administers to a man sick with infectious disease. Shows him the Host through window, and says: "Have hope and imagine you receive it." The man shows the priest a coin through the window, and repeats the same phrase "Here is half of picture and you must imagine other half." Jester later redecorates house in fragments of pictures
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