μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks off.

Humor. · Humor concerning sex. · Jokes on old maids. · view the constellation · filed as X754

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  • general Type 1478.
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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 A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down 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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