The constellation
J2021 Numskulls cannot find their own legs. A stranger helps them with a switch. (Usually get them mixed up when they sit down to bathe their feet.)
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- Numskulls Cannot Find their Own Legs · ATU 1288
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- Numskull doesn't recognize his own horse. Finds it only when the rest ride away and he takes the only one left · J2023 entry
- Numskull rides backward. "I didn't get on backward but the horse seems to be left-handed." · J2024 entry
- Inability to find object one is carrying · J2025 entry
- Fools try to fight with man inside of drum who seems to make the noise. Are really pounding each other · J2026 entry
- Opium-smoker on journey asks his way about; ends up at his own house · J2027 entry