μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lawyer who tries to practice without lying fails. He enters religious order and tries to conduct the legal business without lying.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on lawyers. · view the constellation · filed as X314

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 127
  • general Crane Vitry 155 No. 52
  • general Scala Celi 7b No. 47
  • general Alphabet No. 483.
Within the index

Filed under Jokes on lawyers. (Cf. P422.)

Filed beside it
What will happen when there are so many lawyers. Woman sees the crowds of students in the law school. She knows that the one lawyer in her village has ruined nearly everyoneBeggar frightens lawyer into giving by telling him of all the lawyers in hellDying like Christ – between two thieves. The dying man has the lawyer and the notary stand on either side of himDying lawyer says, "I appeal"Nero has reserved place in hell for lawyersLawyer thrown back into mud when rescuers learn that he is a lawyerLawyer loses tongue in death because he sold it in lifeMiscellaneous jokes about lawyers

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