The priest's guest and the eaten chickens. The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest that the guest has stolen two chickens The priest runs after him — Mythoi

Motif

The priest's guest and the eaten chickens. The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest that the guest has stolen two chickens The priest runs after him.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Trouble-makers. · view the constellation · filed as K2137

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 1741
general *BP II 129
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 364
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 245 No. 543
general Chauvin VI 179 No. 341
general *Fb "øre" III 1181a

Within the index

Filed under Trouble-makers.

Filed beside it

Trickster makes two friends each suspicious of the other's intentions False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker Servant lays skin of dead dog in the bed of his mistress and master. Makes trouble between them The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath Officers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their master Trouble-maker in night-lodging. Comes riding a wolf and asks for hospitality. Wolf kills sheep. Beehive in bed. Bees sting family and cause father to kill son Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food Two persons separately informed about each other's death

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Strenuous cure for madness. Doctor throws patients into a pit of water. Servant warns queer-looking hunter to flee before master throws him into the pit. (Cf. K2137.) Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.)

Carried in tale types

The Priest's Guest and the Eaten Chickens · ATU 1741 1 recorded variant

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