Priest to have maid at least fifty years old: gets one aged twenty and one aged thirty

Motif

Priest to have maid at least fifty years old: gets one aged twenty and one aged thirty.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd lack of logic. · Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions. · view the constellation · filed as J2212.1.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general Nouvelles Récréations No. 34

Within the index

Filed under Two fifteen-year old slaves ordered: fool brings one thirty years old.

Carried in tale types

Marrying a Man of Forty · ATU 1362B* 1 recorded variant

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