ATU 1675: The Ox (Ass) as Mayor

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The full ATU 1675 entry gives the same distinctive chain: tricksters induce a farmer to have his ox educated, take the tuition, slaughter the animal, tell him that it has become an officeholder in another city, and confront him when he travels to reclaim it. Here the two conspirators take the fee and slaughter the ox; the lawyer says it became Pope in Rome; the farmer travels there, ropes the Pope as his ox, and is paid to release him. The office is Pope rather than mayor and the local ending is a ransom rather than expulsion or recovery of tuition. The unusually close full sequence supports possible, not probable.

• „daß sie beschlossen, ihn studiren zu lassen“
• „schlachteten den Ochsen“
• „sein Ochse sei Papst in Rom geworden“
• „Na, nu kumm man mit, min leiw Össing, Mauder schal di ok seihn“
• „bis er ihn endlich freigab“