The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself

Motif

The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K343.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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general *Type 1792
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 790
general Lee Decameron 257f.
general Taylor MPh XV 226.

Within the index

Filed under Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it.

Filed beside it

Thief advises that new cloth be hung in the open overnight. Steals it while owner sleeps

Carried in tale types

The Stingy Clergyman and the Slaughtered Pig · ATU 17921 recorded variant

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