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ANECDOTES AND JOKES
1200-1999
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NT1
1200-1349 ↓
Stories about a Fool
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NT2
1200 ↓
The Sowing of Salt
NT2
1201 ↓
The plowing
NT2
1202 ↓
The Grain Harvesting
NT2
1203 ↓
The Scythe Cuts one Man's Head off
NT2
1204 ↓
Fool Keeps Repeating his Instructions so as to remember them
NT2
1211 ↓
The Peasant Woman Thinks the Cow Chewing her Cud is Mimicking Her
NT2
1212 ↓
The Horse is Drawn across the Ice
NT2
1213 ↓
The Pent Cuckoo
NT2
1214 ↓
The Persuavive Auctioner
NT2
1215 ↓
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
NT2
1218 ↓
Numskull Sits on Eggs to Finish Hatching
NT2
1225 ↓
The man without a head in the bear's den
NT2
1226 ↓
The Rabbit Catch
NT2
1227 ↓
One woman to catch the squirrel; the other to get the cooking pot
NT2
1228 ↓
Shooting with a Gun
NT2
1229 ↓
If the Wolf's Tail Breaks
NT2
1231 ↓
The Actack on the Hare (Crayfish)
NT2
1238 ↓
The Roof in Good and Bad Weather
NT2
1240 ↓
Man sitting on branch of tree cuts it off
NT2
1241 ↓
The tree is to be pulled down
NT2
1242 ↓
Loading the wood
NT2
1243 ↓
The wood is carried down the hill
NT2
1245 ↓
Sunlight carried in a bag into the windowless house
NT2
1246 ↓
The Axes Thrown Away
NT2
1247 ↓
The Man Sticks his Head into the Hole of the Millstone
NT2
1249 ↓
Oxen Hitched Before and Behind Wagon
NT2
1250 ↓
Bringing Water from the Well
NT2
1255 ↓
A hole to throw the earth in
NT2
1260 ↓
Jumping into the sea for fish
NT2
1260 ↓
The porridge in the ice hole
NT2
1261 ↓
The Slaughter of the Ox
NT2
1263 ↓
The Porridge Eaten in Different Rooms
NT2
1270 ↓
The Drying of the Candle
NT2
1276 ↓
Rowing without going forward
NT2
1277 ↓
The Boat Gets Tired
NT2
1278 ↓
Marking the place on the boat
NT2
1279 ↓
Protected by the Needle
NT2
1280 ↓
The Needle (or the like) Falls into the Sea
NT2
1281 ↓
Burning the Barn to Destroy an Unknown Animal
NT2
1285 ↓
Pulling on the shirt
NT2
1286 ↓
Jumping into the Breeches
NT2
1287 ↓
Numskull unable to count their own number
NT2
1288 ↓
'These are not my feet'
NT2
1290 ↓
Swimming in the Flax-field
NT2
1291 ↓
Sending One Cheese After Another
NT2
1293 ↓
Numskull Stays until he has Finished
NT2
1294 ↓
Getting the Calf's Head out of the Pot
NT2
1295 ↓
The Seventh Cake Satisfies
NT2
1296 ↓
Fool's Errand
NT2
1309 ↓
Choosing the Clean Figs
NT2
1310 ↓
Drowning the crayfish as punishment
NT2
1311 ↓
The Wolf Taken for a Colt
NT2
1313 ↓
The Man who Thought Himself Dead
NT2
1314 ↓
The Buttercask Taken for a Dead Man
NT2
1315 ↓
The Big Tree Taken for a Snake
NT2
1316 ↓
Rabbit Thought to be a Cow
NT2
1317 ↓
Blind Man and Elephant
NT2
1319 ↓
Other mistaken identities
NT2
1321 ↓
Fools frightened
NT2
1326 ↓
Moving the church
NT2
1327 ↓
Emptying the Meal Sack
NT2
1330 ↓
Quenching the Burning Boat
NT2
1331 ↓
The Covetous and the Envious
NT2
1333 ↓
The Shepherd who Cried "Wolf!" too often
NT2
1334 ↓
The Local Moon
NT2
1335 ↓
The Eaten Moon
NT2
1336 ↓
Diving for Cheese
NT2
1341 ↓
Fools Warn Thief what Not to Steal
NT2
1342 ↓
Hot and Cold with the Same Breath
NT2
1343 ↓
Hanging Game
NT2
1344 ↓
Lighting a Fire from the Sparks from a Box on the Ear
NT2
1347 ↓
Living Crucifix Chosen
NT2
1348 ↓
The Imaginative Boy
NT1
1350-1439 ↓
Stories about Married Couples
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▼
NT2
1350 ↓
The loving wife
NT2
1351 ↓
The silence wager
NT2
1352 ↓
The Devil Guards the Wife's Chastity
NT2
1353 ↓
The old woman as troublemaker
NT2
1354 ↓
Death for the Old Couple
NT2
1358 ↓
Trickster Surprises Adulteress and Lover
NT2
1360 ↓
The Man Hidden in the Roof
NT2
1361 ↓
The Flood
NT2
1362 ↓
The Snow-child
NT2
1363 ↓
Tale of the Craddle
NT2
1364 ↓
The Blood-brother's Wife
NT2
1365 ↓
The obstinate wife
NT2
1367 ↓
Trickster Shifts Married Couples in Bed
NT2
1372 ↓
The Box on the Ears
NT2
1373 ↓
The Weighed Cat
NT2
1377 ↓
An Adulterous Wife Locks Her Husband Out of Doors
NT2
1378 ↓
The Marked Coat in the Wife's Room
NT1
1380-1404 ↓
The Foolish Wife and Her Husband
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▼
NT2
1380 ↓
The faithless wife
NT2
1381 ↓
The talkative wife and the discovered treasure
NT2
1382 ↓
The Peasant Woman at Market
NT2
1383 ↓
A Woman Does Not Know Herself
NT2
1384 ↓
The husband hunts for three persons as stupid as his wife
NT2
1385 ↓
A Woman Loses Her Husband's Money
NT2
1386 ↓
Meat as food for cabbage
NT2
1387 ↓
A Woman Draws Beer in the Cellar
NT2
1391 ↓
Every hole to tell the truth
NT2
1393 ↓
The Single Blanket
NT1
1405-1429 ↓
The Foolish Husband and His Wife
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▼
NT2
1405 ↓
The Lazy Spinner
NT2
1406 ↓
The merry wives wager . . .
NT2
1407 ↓
The Miser
NT2
1408 ↓
The man who does his wife's work
NT2
1410 ↓
Four Men's Mistress
NT2
1415 ↓
Trading Away One's Fortune
NT2
1416 ↓
The mouse in the silver jug. The new Eve
NT2
1417 ↓
The Cutt-off Nose (Hair)
NT2
1418 ↓
The Equivocal Oath
NT2
1422 ↓
The Parrot and the Adulterous Woman
NT2
1423 ↓
The Enchanted Pear Tree
NT2
1425 ↓
Putting the Devil into Hell
NT1
1430-1439 ↓
The Foolish Couple
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▼
NT2
1430 ↓
Air Castles
NT2
1431 ↓
The contagious yawns
NT2
1437 ↓
A Sweet Word
NT1
1440-1524 ↓
Stories about a Woman
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▼
NT2
1440 ↓
The tenant promises his daughter to his master against her will
NT2
1441 ↓
Respite from Wooer while he Brings Clothes all Night
NT2
1447 ↓
Drinking only after Bargain
NT1
1450-1474 ↓
Looking for a Wife
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▼
NT2
1450 ↓
Clever Elsie
NT2
1451 ↓
A suitor chooses the thrifty girl
NT2
1452 ↓
Choosing a Bride by How She Cuts Cheese
NT2
1453 ↓
Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness
NT2
1454 ↓
The greedy fiancee
NT2
1455 ↓
|The Hard-hearted Fiancée
NT2
1456 ↓
|The blind fiancée
NT2
1457 ↓
The lisping maiden
NT2
1458 ↓
The girl who ate so little
NT2
1459 ↓
Keeping up appearances
NT2
1461 ↓
The girl with the ugly name
NT2
1462 ↓
Clean and tidy
NT2
1462 ↓
The unwilling suitor advised from the tree
NT2
1463 ↓
Finger-drying Contest Won by Deception
NT2
1464 ↓
Good housekeeping
NT2
1464 ↓
Nothing to cook
NT2
1468 ↓
Marrying a stranger
NT1
1475-1499 ↓
Jokes about Old Maids
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NT2
1475 ↓
Marriage Forbidden Outside the Parish
NT2
1476 ↓
The Prayer for a Husband
NT2
1477 ↓
The wolf steals the old maid
NT2
1478 ↓
The Meal of Beans
NT1
1500-1524 ↓
Other Stories about Women
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▼
NT2
1501 ↓
Aristoteles and Phyllis
NT2
1503 ↓
The daughter-in-law and the real daughter
NT2
1511 ↓
The Faithless Queen
NT1
1525-1724 ↓
Stories about a Man
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▼
NT2
1525-1639 ↓
The Clever Man
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▼
NT3
1525 ↓
The master thief
NT3
1525 ↓
The robber brothers
NT3
1526 ↓
The Old Beggar and the Robbers
NT3
1527 ↓
The Robbers are Betrayed
NT3
1528 ↓
Holding Down the Hat
NT3
1529 ↓
Thief Claims to have been Transformed into a Horse
NT3
1530 ↓
Holding up the Rock
NT3
1531 ↓
The Man Thinks he has Been in Heaven
NT3
1532 ↓
The Voice from the Grave
NT3
1533 ↓
The wise carving of the fowl
NT3
1535 ↓
The Rich Peasant and the Poor Peasant
NT3
1537 ↓
The corpse killed five times
NT3
1538 ↓
The youth cheated in selling oxen
NT3
1539 ↓
Cleverness and gullibility
NT3
1540 ↓
The student from Paradise (Paris)
NT3
1541 ↓
For the long winter
NT3
1542 ↓
The clever boy
NT3
1543 ↓
The man without a member
NT3
1544 ↓
The man who got a night's lodging
NT3
1545 ↓
The boy with many names
NT3
1548 ↓
Stone Soup
NT3
1551 ↓
The Wager that Sheep are Hogs
NT3
1553 ↓
An Ox for Five Pennies
NT3
1555 ↓
Milk in the Cask
NT3
1556 ↓
The Double Pension (Burial Money)
NT3
1557 ↓
Box on the Ear Returned
NT3
1558 ↓
Welcome to the Clothes
NT3
1560 ↓
Make-believe eating; make-believe work
NT3
1561 ↓
The boy 'loses his sight'
NT3
1562 ↓
"Think Thrice before you Speak"
NT3
1563 ↓
'Both'
NT3
1565 ↓
Agreement Not to Scratch
NT3
1567 ↓
Hungry Servant Reproaches Stingy Master
NT3
1568 ↓
The master and the servant at the table
NT3
1573 ↓
Inspecting the daughter
NT3
1574 ↓
The flattering foreman
NT3
1577 ↓
Blind Men Duped into Fighting: Money to be Devided
NT3
1579 ↓
Carrying Wolf, Goat, and Cabbage across Stream
NT3
1586 ↓
The Man in Court for Killing a Fly
NT3
1587 ↓
Man Allowed to pick out Tree to be Hanged on
NT3
1589 ↓
The Lawyer's Dog Steals Meat
NT3
1590 ↓
The Tresspasser's Defence
NT3
1591 ↓
The Three Joint Depositors
NT3
1592 ↓
The Iron-eating Mice
NT3
1600 ↓
The fool as murderer
NT3
1610 ↓
To Divide Presents and Strokes
NT3
1611 ↓
Contest in Climbing the Mast
NT3
1612 ↓
The Contest in Swimming
NT3
1613 ↓
"Playing-Cards are my Calendar and Prayerbook"
NT3
1615 ↓
The Heller Thrown into Other's Money
NT3
1620 ↓
The conversation of the one-eyed man and the hunchback
NT3
1620 ↓
The Emperor's New Clothes
NT3
1624 ↓
Thief's Excuse: the Big Wind
NT3
1626 ↓
Dream Bread
NT3
1628 ↓
The learned son and the forgotten language
NT3
1631 ↓
Horse which will not Go over Trees
NT3
1635 ↓
Eulenspiegel's tricks
NT2
1640-1674 ↓
Lucky Accidents
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▼
NT3
1640 ↓
The Valiant Little Tailor
NT3
1641 ↓
Doctor Know-all
NT3
1642 ↓
The Good Bargain
NT3
1643 ↓
The Broken Image
NT3
1645 ↓
The Man Who Became Rich through a Dream
NT3
1650 ↓
The Three Lucky Brothers
NT3
1651 ↓
Whittington's cat
NT3
1652 ↓
The Wolves in the Stable
NT3
1653 ↓
The Robbers under the Tree
NT3
1655 ↓
The profitable exchange
NT3
1660 ↓
The Poor Man in Court
NT3
1661 ↓
The Triple Tax
NT3
1663 ↓
Deviding Five Eggs Equally between Two Men and One Woman
NT2
1675-1724 ↓
The Stupid Man
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▼
NT3
1675 ↓
The ox (ass) as mayor
NT3
1678 ↓
The boy who had never seen a woman
NT3
1681 ↓
Foolish man builds aircastles
NT3
1682 ↓
The groom teaches his horse to live without food
NT3
1685 ↓
The Foolish Bridegroom
NT3
1687 ↓
The forgotten word
NT3
1688 ↓
The Servant to Improve on the Master's Statements
NT3
1689 ↓
Thank God They Weren't Peaches
NT3
1691 ↓
|Don´t Eat too Greadly
NT3
1692 ↓
The Stupid Thief
NT3
1693 ↓
The Literal Fool - the Burning of Lanka
NT3
1694 ↓
The Company to Sing like the Leader
NT3
1695 ↓
The Fool Spoils the Work of the Shoemaker, the Tailor and the Smith
NT3
1696 ↓
What Should I Have Said?
NT3
1697 ↓
"We Three; For Money"
NT3
1699 ↓
Misunderstanding Because of Ignorance of a Foreign Language
NT3
1700 ↓
"I don't Know"
NT3
1701 ↓
Echo answers
NT3
1702 ↓
Anecdotes about Stutterers
NT3
1705 ↓
Talking Horse and Dog
NT3
1707 ↓
The Noseless Man
NT3
1718 ↓
God can't take a joke
NT1
1725-1849 ↓
Jokes about Clergymen and Religious Figures
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▼
NT2
1725-1774 ↓
The Clergyman is Tricked
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▼
NT3
1725 ↓
The foolish parson in the trunk
NT3
1730 ↓
The entrapped suitors
NT3
1731 ↓
The Youth and the Pretty Shoes
NT3
1735 ↓
'Who gives his own goods shall receive it back tenfold'
NT3
1736 ↓
The stingy parson
NT3
1737 ↓
Trading Places with the Trickster in a Sack
NT3
1738 ↓
The Dream: All Parsons in Hell
NT3
1739 ↓
The parson and the calf
NT3
1740 ↓
Candles on the Crayfish
NT3
1741 ↓
Trickster Wives and Maids
NT3
1745 ↓
Three words at the grave
NT3
1750 ↓
The Parson's Stupid Wife
NT3
1775-1799 ↓
Clergyman and Sexton
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▼
NT4
1775 ↓
The hungry parson
NT4
1776 ↓
The sexton falls into the brewing-vat
NT4
1781 ↓
Sexton's Own Wife Brings her Offering
NT4
1786 ↓
The Parson in the Church on the Ox
NT4
1790 ↓
The Parson and Sexton Steal a Cow
NT4
1791 ↓
The sexton carries the parson
NT4
1792 ↓
The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig
NT1
1800-1849 ↓
Other Jokes about Religious Figures
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▼
NT2
1800 ↓
Stealing Only a Small Amount
NT2
1804 ↓
Imagined penance for imagined sin
NT2
1804 ↓
The eel filled with sand
NT2
1805 ↓
Confessions of a Pious Woman
NT2
1806 ↓
Will Lunch with Christ
NT2
1807 ↓
The Equivocal Confession
NT2
1810 ↓
Jokes about catechism
NT2
1812 ↓
Wager: to Dance with Nun
NT2
1820 ↓
Bride and Groom at Wedding Ceremony
NT2
1824 ↓
Parody sermon
NT2
1826 ↓
The Parson has no Need to Preach
NT2
1827 ↓
You shall see me a little while longer
NT2
1829 ↓
Living Person Acts as Image of Saint
NT2
1830 ↓
In trial sermon the parson promises the laymen the kind of weather they want
NT2
1831 ↓
The Parson and Sexton at Mass
NT2
1832 ↓
Boy answers the priest
NT2
1832 ↓
The sermon about the rich man
NT2
1833 ↓
Application of the sermon
NT2
1833 ↓
Other anecdotes of sermons
NT2
1834 ↓
The clergyman with the fine voice
NT2
1835 ↓
Not to turn round
NT2
1837 ↓
The Parson to Let a Dove Fly in the Church
NT2
1838 ↓
The hog in church
NT2
1840 ↓
At the blessing of the grave the parson's ox breaks loose
NT2
1841 ↓
Grace before meat
NT2
1842 ↓
The Testament of the Dog
NT2
1843 ↓
Parson visits the dying
NT2
1844 ↓
The Parson Visits the Sick
NT2
1845 ↓
The student as healer
NT1
1850-1874 ↓
Anecdotes about Other Groups of People
►
▼
NT2
1851 ↓
Jokes about Devout Women
NT2
1855 ↓
Jokes about Jews
NT1
1875-1999 ↓
Tall Tales
►
▼
NT2
1875 ↓
The Boy on the Wolf's Tail
NT2
1876 ↓
The Geese on the Line
NT2
1882 ↓
The Man who Fell out of a Balloon
NT2
1886 ↓
Man Drinks from own Skull
NT2
1890 ↓
The lucky shot
NT2
1891 ↓
The Great Rabbit-Catch
NT2
1892 ↓
The Trained Horse Rolls in the Field
NT2
1894 ↓
The man shoots a ramrod full of ducks
NT2
1895 ↓
A man wading in water catching many fish in his boots
NT2
1896 ↓
Hunting the wolves with rod and line
NT2
1911 ↓
Cart as Legs
NT2
1913 ↓
The Side-hill Beast
NT2
1916 ↓
The Breathing Tree
NT2
1917 ↓
The Stretching and Shrinking Harness
NT2
1920 ↓
Contest in lying
NT2
1925 ↓
Wishing contests
NT2
1927 ↓
The Cold May Night
NT2
1931 ↓
The woman who asked for news from home
NT2
1935 ↓
Topsy-Turvy Land
NT2
1940 ↓
The Extraordinary Names
NT2
1948 ↓
Too much talk
NT2
1950 ↓
The three lazy ones
NT2
1951 ↓
Is Wood Split?
NT2
1961 ↓
The big wedding
NT2
1965 ↓
Lying tales
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Stories about a Fool
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Looking for a Wife
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The Foolish Wife and Her Husband
Jokes about Old Maids
The Foolish Couple
Stories about a Woman