Saint who desires pottage of nettles containing no milk receives pottage into which milk has been poured surreptitiously through pipe. The secret is revealed, and the saint blesses the cook's successors

Motif

Saint who desires pottage of nettles containing no milk receives pottage into which milk has been poured surreptitiously through pipe. The secret is revealed, and the saint blesses the cook's successors.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K499.2.2

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Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Object with a hollow as instrument of cheats.

Filed beside it

Saint who desires broth containing no butter receives broth into which butter has been poured surreptitiously through hollow mixing-stick. (Cf. K498.)

Travels with

Persons deceived into eating meat in Lent, the meat being disguised as butter. (Cf. K499.2.1, K499.2.2.)

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