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

Motif

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.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with tradesmen. · Jokes about millers. · view the constellation · filed as X212

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Wesselski Bebel I 118 No. 3.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Priest commends the poor miller. If he had been like the rest of the congregation he would have become rich

Filed beside it

Millers as thieves 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

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