The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children

Motif

The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning the parentage of children. · view the constellation · filed as J1272

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 654A.
general Type 1548*

Within the index

Filed under Repartee concerning the parentage of children.

Filed beside it

Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) The child born too soon Repartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Fool's Talent (previously The Gift of the Fool) · ATU 1548* 1 recorded variant

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