Peasants want a living God. An artist, ordered to make a crucifix, asks peasants if they want a living God. They say yes. "If we don't like him we can kill him ourselves." — Mythoi

Motif

Peasants want a living God. An artist, ordered to make a crucifix, asks peasants if they want a living God. They say yes. "If we don't like him we can kill him ourselves."

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal fool – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J2495.4

Cited in the index

general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 409.

Within the index

Filed under Religious words or exercises interpreted with absurd literalness.

Filed beside it

Praying to the nearer virgin. One man prays to the Virgin of Aix-la-Chapelle. The other: "That place is too far away; she can't be here in time to help." He prays to the Virgin of a nearer town Debtors do not forgive. "The Lord's Prayer has little power. I forgive my debtors but my debtors do not forgive me." Did not want to be Christ. An actor representing Christ in a Passion Play is beaten by Jews. He throws the cross down: "The devil may be God; I won't." Numskulls believing that God has reposed on a leaf want to cross river on one

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