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Why shoemakers are indolent. A shoemaker spits at Christ on way to be crucified. Christ tells him, "A poor slobbering fellow thou shalt be, and all shoemakers after thee, for what thou has done to me." (Cf. A2231.2, P445.1.)

Society. · Trades and professions. · Artisans. · view the constellation · filed as P453.1

Filed across the traditions
  • England Baughman.
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Filed under Shoemaker.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Animal characteristics: punishment for hostility at crucifixion. (Cf. A2221.2.) Why weavers are the most unhappy of men. They gave a nail for the Crucifixion

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