The constellation
J2465 Disastrous following of instructions
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Literal obedience · J2460 entry
beneath it
- Feeding the pigs wet meal. The wife throws the meal into the well and the pigs after it · J2465.1 entry
- Piling up the pottery. The woman breaks the pots into fragments and piles them up · J2465.2 entry
- Feeding the child. Fool feeds it steaming food and kills it · J2465.3 entry
- Washing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills it · J2465.4 entry
- Clearing out the room. Fool throws out all the furniture · J2465.5 entry
- Washing the room. Fool floods it · J2465.6 entry
- Oh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother her · J2465.7 entry
- Cutting at the plow. Literal fool told to cut at plow if it sticks on roots cuts at bullock's legs · J2465.8 entry
- "Sew shirts for servants." Fool sews them to trees · J2465.9 entry
- "Collect goats under tree." Fool piles up their carcasses · J2465.10 entry
- Fool takes threat to child as an order. Cuts off child's ears · J2465.11 entry
- Plowing above the tree. Told to plow above a certain tree (on the hillside), numskulls haul oxen and plow into tree and destroy them · J2465.12 entry
- "Plowing out potatoes." Fool plows them out of ground · J2465.13 entry