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The Devil’s Fart
Via DL Ashiman’s excellent folktale website, I just came across these tales of legendary farts. The shortest ones are about how if you make a pact with the devil, you can trick him out of it by farting:
Once a carpenter made a pact with the devil, and when his time was up, the devil came to him and wanted to take him away. However, the carpenter told him that he had to fulfill one last request for him, and the devil agreed to this. With that the carpenter broke wind mightily and then told the devil to bring it back to him. But the devil was not able to do this, however much he tried. A whirlwind is just the devil flying along behind the carpenter’s fart. For this reason a whirlwind is called simply “Timmerman’s Fart.”
Apparently, this sort of folktale is common enough that it has an ID number (1176) assigned to it in the Aarne-Thompson folklore taxonomy system. (Number 1175 features stories where the Devil is defeated by his inability to straighten curly hair. Another fart folktale features the following hilarious line which an apprentice furrier delivers to his master after being reprimanded for farting indoors.) The master tells him to go out to the courtyard where he can fart as much as he likes: “Master,” the apprentice replies. “It would do no good, because farts don’t like the cold. They are used to being in a warm place. That’s why if you let a fart it always rushes for your nose. It goes from one warm place to another.” Another good one features a weary traveller who takes a shit inside of a folding table to get back at a nasty innkeeper. These things are hilarious!
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June 26th, 2006 at 2:25 am
“The art of farting was also practiced in the Far East, as is evident from a story dating to the Japanese Kamakura period (1185–1333), set forth in an illustrated scroll, tells of a professional performer of fart dances called Oribe, who tricked his rival into soiling and thus disgracing himself in an attempt to mimick him.”
Professional farters
June 26th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Here’s a joke I learned in elementary school:
Three soldiers– one Army, one Navy, one Marine — die on the battlefield and are sent to Hell. The Devil, realizing that they died fighting for their country while at the same time wanting their souls, brokers a wager between them: He will send the three back to the land of the living to find a question that The Devil cannot answer. if they succeed, they retain their soul.
And so it goes. A week later, the three retrurn to Hades and quiz The Devil.
The Army regular asks: “Who was the 1st president of the United States?”
Devil: “George Washington.” The Army regular went to Hell.
The Navy sailor asks: “What is the color of my widowed wife’s hair?”
Devil: “A trick question. She is a brunette but dyes it blonde.” POOF! Away his soul went to Hell.
The Marine gets up and prepares to ask his question. “I have a prop.”
The Marine pulls out a chair speckled with holes all over it. He sits in the chair and asks:
“If I fart wh8ile sitting on this chair, what hole will it come out of?”
The Devil pondered this for several minutes. Finally, after half an hour, he exasperatedly cedes to the Marine. “I give up. Which hole does it come out of?”
The Marine stands up, drops his trousers, turns around and bends over, pointing to his asshole, yelling “THIS ONE!”
Thought you might enjoy that– it was in the vein of your post.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Regarding tricking the devil with farts, you might listen to Zappa’s song, “Titties ‘N Beer.”