Misunderstood words lead to comic results. In some the people are not really deaf but fail to catch a word; in some they are deaf

Motif

Misunderstood words lead to comic results. In some the people are not really deaf but fail to catch a word; in some they are deaf.

Humor. · Humor of disability. · Humor of deafness. · view the constellation · filed as X111.7

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Indonesia DeVries's list No. 296.
general Type 1698G
general Aarne FFC XX 40, 76. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 189

Within the index

Filed beside it

Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way. Travelers ask their direction. Peasant thinks they want to buy oxen. Peasant's wife arrives; thinks they say her food is too salty. – Daughter-in-law and father-in-law misunderstand each other Two persons believe each other deaf. A trickster tells each of two persons before they meet that the other is hard of hearing and must be shouted at. A great shouting takes place, and each thinks the other out of his wits Deaf peasant: the wedding invitation. Lord: Good morning, Peter. Peasant: I come from Bingen. – L. What is the hog worth? – P. Two weeks from next Sunday (the wedding). – L. Shall I come to the wedding? – P. Three and a half gulden Deaf man on the bridge. Lord: Good day, Caspar. – Caspar: I am making a reel. – L. Good day, Caspar. – C. It is worth four pence. – L. Good day, Caspar. – C. Yes, my lord, whenever you wish The deaf man and the proud nobleman. A nobleman amuses himself at the expense of the deaf man. Finally Nobleman: I wish you a thousand gallows and ropes around your neck. – Peasant: My lord, I wish you twice as many The deaf man with the bird in the tree. A traveller asks the way and the man keeps telling him about the bird he has caught. (The questions and answers often rhyme.) Deaf man visits the sick. He plans the conversation with the expected answers. The answers turn out otherwise. A. How are you? – B. I am dead. – A. Thank God! What have you eaten? – B. Poison, I think. – A. I hope it agrees with you "Good day." – "A woodchopper." The workman answers the traveler's courtesies with remarks about his work. (Cf. X111.8.) Buyer and deaf seller The deaf parson. The youth answers unintelligibly but is praised nevertheless The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." Deaf litigants and deaf judge misunderstand one another. (Cf. X111.1.) Travelers pass through Wesley. One asks name of town; another replies, "This is Wesley." Another says, "I thought it was Thursday." Third says, "So am I; let's have a drink."

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

"I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.)

Carried in tale types

Misunderstanding Because of Ignorance of a Foreign Language (Including the previous Type 1699A) · ATU 1699 1 recorded variant
The Changed Order · ATU 1699B 1 recorded variant

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