The constellation
J2463 The foolish bride
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filed under
- Literal obedience · J2460 entry
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- Foolish bride gives away dowry. While her parents are away from home, a matchmaker and a suitor come to the foolish girl. By following her mother's advice literally, she gives away her dower to the tricksters · J2463.1 entry
- Marrying a stranger. The girl shortly to be married complains: "It was all very well for you, mother, to marry father, but I am to marry a complete stranger." · J2463.2 entry
filed beside
- Disastrous following of misunderstood instructions. (To burn land, then sow seed. Opposite done.) · J2460.1 entry
- What should I have done (said)? The mother teaches the boy (the man his wife) what he should say (do) in this or that circumstance. He uses the words in the most impossible cases and is always punished · J2461 entry
- Foolish bridegroom follows instructions literally · J2462 entry
- The servant to improve on the master's statements. The wooer makes boasts to the girl and the servant always doubles the master's boast. Finally the master says, "I have poor eyesight." – The servant, "You don't see at all." (Or the master coughs and apologizes; the servant says that he coughs all night.) · J2464 entry
- Disastrous following of instructions · J2465 entry
- Literal following of the count · J2466 entry
- Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous · J2469 entry