ABSTRACT
So he took off the monk’s robes, put back his own clothes, and returned home. Once he was there, he was sick from the terrible scare he had had.
And so now each of the three wives had carried out their trick and made great fools of their husbands, and they were eager to learn who had done the best trick. They met the next day, without their husbands knowing it, and went to the lawyer and told him their stories. The lawyer enjoyed hearing all three tales. He liked the trick with the trattoria, and he also liked the trick with the monk, but he judged the best trick to be the one with the molars. This was because the man who couldn’t find his own house did find it the following day, and the man who found himself in monk’s robes, although he did get sick, was soon back to normal. But the man who had all his teeth removed was left without any recourse whatsoever. And so he gave the jewel to the wife who had thought up that trick. Collected by Giuseppe Vincenzo Marotta in Cerda.
