The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform.
The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts connected with almsgiving. · view the constellation · filed as J1582.1