Jokes on old maids — Mythoi

Motif

Jokes on old maids.

Humor. · Humor concerning sex. · Jokes on old maids. · view the constellation · filed as X750

Cited in the index

general *Types 1475–1499
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 334 s. v. "Alte Jungfer".

Within the index

6 finer motifs beneath it

X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishes The old maid in bed. On one side is a bundle of straw (her husband) and on the other a dog (her child). She gives the straw bundle a push and thereupon falls on the floor herself A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down The meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks off The wolf steals the old maid. She keeps him for a husband The mother trains the old maid to speak properly. Absurd results

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