Usurer encourages sermons against usury, so that his competitors will cease activity — Mythoi

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Usurer encourages sermons against usury, so that his competitors will cease activity.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor concerning other social classes. · Jokes concerning usurers. · view the constellation · filed as X516

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Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 192

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Filed under Jokes concerning usurers.

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Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard Usurers do not reply. The parson asks the various trades and professions to rise one by one for a special blessing. When he calls for the usurers none reply Devil will not carry usurers to hell but will drag them by the legs. So declares a youth paid by a usurer to protest against the priest's remarks that the devil would carry all usurers off Only usurers can carry the corpse of the usurer. It refuses to be moved by anyone else. (Cf. X521.)

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