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Motifs
- Mountain-men make sausage of Christians. F460.4.4.4
- Thumbling imprisoned in a sausage. F535.1.1.8
- Mouse, bird, and sausage keep house together. When they exchange duties all goes wrong. J512.7
- The sausage rain. (Or rain of figs, fishes, or milk.) A mother in order to discredit testimony of her foolish son who has killed a man makes him believe that it has rained sausages. When he says that he killed the man on the night it rained sausages his testimony is discredited. J1151.1.3
- Two eggs. Widow serves tailor one egg. He sings, "One egg, one egg." She decides one egg is not enough and serves him two next time. He then sings "Two eggs are two eggs." He is next given two eggs and a sausage, etc. J1341.4
- Fool unacquainted with sausage. He squeezes the inside out and takes the covering for a sack. J1732.1
- Old sausage (roll) taken for frightening animal. J1771.2
- Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
- Sale of a sausage filled with blood. K141
- For the long winter. The numskull has been told to keep the sausage "for the long winter". When the trickster hears this, he claims to be Long Winter and receives the sausage. K362.1
- Sausage as revolver. Man scares robber with sausage; later boasts of event at inn. Robber hears this. Innkeeper secretly lends man a real revolver; robber is shot down when boldly attempting a second attack. K437.3
- The dog receives the blows. The cat steals a sausage from the table but the dog receives the blows from the mistress. K2171
- Man saves sausage skins, sends them back for refilling. W152.14.2
- Sexton's dog steals sausage from parson's pocket: parson flees. X411.1
Tale types
- ATU 1339A Fool is Unacquainted with Sausages
- ATU 1381B The Sausage Rain
- ATU 1741* The Sausage Tax (previously The Parson is Dissatisfied with his Share)
- ATU 1785A The Sausage in the Pocket (previously The Sexton's Dog Steals the Sausage from the Parson's Pocket)
- ATU 85 The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
- ATU 952* A Sausage and a Revolver