A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down

Motif

A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down.

Humor. · Humor concerning sex. · Jokes on old maids. · view the constellation · filed as X753

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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RussianAndrejev No. 1479*.
general Type 1479*

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Filed under Jokes on old maids.

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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 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

Carried in tale types

The Old Maid on the Roof (previously The Youth Promises to Marry the Old Maid) · ATU 1479*1 recorded variant

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