- who at first is impressed with Brother Lustig and decides to travel with him. But the two quickly go off each other as St Peter discovers that his companion lies and steals and disobeys a saint while Brother Lustig regards his fellow-traveller as a fool for refusing generous rewards. However, despite these character flaws Brother Lustig still manages to cheat his way into heaven. A large number of speeches characterize Brother Lustig's practical thinking, his generosity and his attitude towards saints and devils, while the tale contains various motifs common in fairy tales, including a magical bag or knapsack and the ability of characters to be able to change their appearance. The Brothers Grimm had the tale from Georg Passy, who heard it from an old woman in Vienna. From a version from Hessen the Brothers took the section concerning Brother Lustig arguing that a lamb has no heart. A poem from Achim von Arnim's Master Songs (No. 232) of 1550 has a soldier begging for food while his companion St Peter wants to preach. St. Peter heals the local mayor for which he is rewarded with thirty guilders and a chicken, which they cook. Peter's soldier companion secretly eats the liver from the chicken that Peter wanted for himself. The soldier confesses when Peter divides the thirty guilders reward into three parts, the third part being for whoever had eaten the liver. A version of the story from 1658 was cited in a court case that year when nailer's apprentice Johannes Zyder was charged with telling a blasphemous joke at the Saffran inn in Zurich. Zyder had been asked to explain why Swabians were described as "liver-eaters". His joke about a Swabian and God may be described as an ancestor of Brother Lustg. This version tells how God is disguised as a man who buys a lamb and tells the Swabian to cook it but to save the liver. When God is called away to raise a dead person at a funeral for which he receives a hundred guilders the Swabian secretly eats the lamb's liver and when challenged as to where it is says it had no liver. In the next village the Swabian attempts to raise a dead person and when he does not succeed the locals plan to execute him. God saves his companion by helping the Swabian to raise the dead person. The Swabian