Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc

Motif

Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · Physical phenomena misunderstood. · view the constellation · filed as J1813.7

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 2439*
Russian Andrejev No. 1710*.

Within the index

Filed under Cooking processes misunderstood.

Filed beside it

Mushrooms shrink in water. Fool kills his wife because he thinks that she has eaten part of them Boiling milk thought to be overflowing. Simpleton lets it run over Boiling pumpkin thought to be talking Boiling pot on the floor thought to be self-cooking Fish dancing about in cooking pot appears to be many. Cook eats one; none left Handful of black pepper taken into mouth instead of cooking it in food Sheep's head has eaten dumplings. Small boy is at home to watch the dinner. Runs into church, calls out to his mother that the sheep's head has eaten all the dumplings (or butted them out of the pot) All the beans cooked for one meal. They fill the room Numskull thinks boiling pot is threatening him: breaks pot

Carried in tale types

All Cooked for One Meal · ATU 1339E 2 recorded variants

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