μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Guilty of everything connected with the seven senses. When the priest to whom he is confessing says there are but five senses, the magistrate says that he needs two more senses than other people.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on magistrates. · view the constellation · filed as X331

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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 Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 297.
Within the index

Filed under Jokes on magistrates. (Cf. P421.)

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Foreigner wonders why city with so many judges has not been destroyed

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