The constellation
J2113 Getting the calf's head out of the pot. A calf gets its head caught in a pot. A fool cuts off the calf's head and then breaks the pot to get it out
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- Remedies worse than the disease · J2100 entry
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- Getting the Calf's Head out of the Pot · ATU 1294
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- Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire · J2101 entry
- Expensive means of being rid of insects · J2102 entry
- Expensive extermination of rodents · J2103 entry
- Moving the fireplace. When it gives too much heat numskulls decide to move it instead of putting out the fire · J2104 entry
- Protecting the prince's slumber. To keep croaking frogs from disturbing him, the fools shoot at the frogs all night · J2105 entry
- Man kills self to make quarrelsome wife a widow · J2106 entry
- Taming the bull by cutting off his horns. It makes him the more violent · J2107 entry
- Punishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double reward · J2108 entry
- Gray hair cured by pulling it out so that the person is bald · J2112 entry
- Snakes in pond to be killed: eels also killed · J2114 entry