The constellation
J2489 Metaphors literally interpreted – miscellaneous
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Metaphors literally interpreted · J2470 entry
beneath it
- Fool interprets metaphors (or slang expressions) about drink · J2489.1 entry
- "Keep locks of everyone in your hand" (keep control of them). Fool interprets literally · J2489.2 entry
- "Bite the ear" (speak secretly). Fool interprets literally · J2489.3 entry
- "Cutting the paper of the accounts" (falsifying accounts). Fool cuts up account books · J2489.4 entry
- "Quieting the patient." Fool does so by killing · J2489.5 entry
- Giving half of savings away: "Whoever gives charity gets double in return." · J2489.6 entry
- "Have a black look" (i.e., frown). Fool blackens face with charcoal · J2489.7 entry
- "Cover with straw." Fool covers his mistress with straw and suffocates her. Should have thatched roof · J2489.8 entry
- "Stick fast to everything you undertake." Foolish son seizes an ass by tail and gets kicked · J2489.9 entry
- Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." · J2489.10 entry
- "Don't allow paint to wear off my daughter's feet." Bridegroom carries her upside down across river and drowns her. (Cf. J2412.6.) · J2489.11 entry
- Making money. "Rupees make more rupees." Stupid peasant sticks his sole rupee in hole and loses it · J2489.12 entry
- "Never show your head again." Jester soon appears with large pot over head · J2489.13 entry
carried in tale type
- A Sweet Word · ATU 1437