Drunk man goes to the king and wants to buy an island — Mythoi

Motif

Drunk man goes to the king and wants to buy an island.

Humor. · Humor based on drunkenness. · Humor based on drunkenness. · view the constellation · filed as X812

Cited in the index

general Type 1671*.

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Filed under Humor based on drunkenness.

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Drunk man lying under his bed thinks he is lying in his shroud. Is cured of drunkenness Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding Drunk men try to see one another home. Absurd results Drunk man sees everything revolving and waits for his house to come to him Drunk woman thinks she is in heaven. Hears someone play the lyre Drunk recruits make war on a haystack Drunken volunteer firemen bungle their work

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