The mother trains the old maid to speak properly. Absurd results — Mythoi

Motif

The mother trains the old maid to speak properly. Absurd results.

Humor. · Humor concerning sex. · Jokes on old maids. · view the constellation · filed as X756

Cited in the index

general Types 1485*, 1486*.

Within the index

Filed under Jokes on old maids.

Filed beside 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

Carried in tale types

Pretty Lips · ATU 1485* 1 recorded variant
The Daughter Talks too Loud · ATU 1486* 1 recorded variant

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