Millers as thieves

Motif

Millers as thieves.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with tradesmen. · Jokes about millers. · view the constellation · filed as X211

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 785
general Fb "møller" II 649

Within the index

Filed under Jokes about millers. (Cf. P443.)

Filed beside it

The honest miller. Baker cannot understand how a man who has been a miller can be a beggar. It is a wonder that the farmers are not beggars instead Why no millers in hell. A mad dog in place of a miller in a sack Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten

wander