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J1818 Animal's action misunderstood
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- Animal cries misunderstood · J1811 entry
- Other sounds misunderstood · J1812 entry
- Cooking processes misunderstood · J1813 entry
- Numskull stays till he has finished. As he is making water he hears a brook flowing and mistakes what it is. He waits for a day and a half · J1814 entry
- Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf · J1815 entry
- Fool thinks gold is being destroyed when snails crawl over it · J1816 entry
- Fool thinks belly is speaking to him; stabs himself. Other animals are shouting at him · J1817 entry
- Physical phenomena misunderstood – miscellaneous · J1819 entry