Sexton puts needle in sacramental bread: parson sticks his hand

Motif

Sexton puts needle in sacramental bread: parson sticks his hand.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on parsons. · view the constellation · filed as X411.2

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general *Type 1785B.

Within the index

Filed under Parson put to flight during his sermon.

Filed beside it

Sexton's dog steals sausage from parson's pocket: parson flees Sexton arranges wasp-nest so that parson sits on it. Wasps chase him

Carried in tale types

The Needle in the Pulpit (previously The Sexton Puts a Needle in the Sacramental Bread) · ATU 1785B1 recorded variant

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