"I can't hear you." Rector confesses his sacristan: "Have you drunk the wine designated for the mass?" – "I can't hear you." Exchange of places. Sacristan asks rector: "Have you kissed my wife?" – "Really, I can't hear you." — Mythoi

Motif

"I can't hear you." Rector confesses his sacristan: "Have you drunk the wine designated for the mass?" – "I can't hear you." Exchange of places. Sacristan asks rector: "Have you kissed my wife?" – "Really, I can't hear you."

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on parsons. · view the constellation · filed as X441.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 2451*
Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1777*.

Within the index

Filed under Parson and sexton at mass. Parson intones instructions to the sexton (cook) as a part of the mass.

Carried in tale types

'l Can't Hear You · ATU 1777A* 1 recorded variant

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