Maid behind statue of Virgin advises the mistress to give the servants better food

Motif

Maid behind statue of Virgin advises the mistress to give the servants better food.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham miracles. · view the constellation · filed as K1971.3.1

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JapaneseIkeda.
general Type 1388*

Within the index

Filed under Boy behind the tree tells woman about the bad food he gets. She thinks God is speaking and gives him good food.

Carried in tale types

The Petitioner Fooled (previously Wife to Spin) · ATU 1380A*1 recorded variant

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