Tailor — Mythoi

Motif

Tailor.

Society. · Trades and professions. · Artisans. · view the constellation · filed as P441

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 16
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 26
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 29

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière.
general *Fb "skrædder"
general *Chauvin IX 29 No. 18
general *Sébillot Métiers No. 7
general *Feilberg Dania I 165ff., III 184ff.
general Paludan Danske Studier (1925) 19ff.

Within the index

Filed under Artisans.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Tailor occupies God's throne for a day Tailoring only trade devil cannot learn. He fails to knot thread because it would make sign of the cross Tailor punished in hell Busy tailor asks soldier to mount watch in his place

Filed beside it

Baker Miller Cabinet-maker Weaver Barber Smith Butcher Spinner Dressmaker (milliner, etc.) Shoemaker Hatter Mason (bricklayer) Carpenter House-painter Woodsman Other artisans

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Jokes about tailors. (Cf. P441.)

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