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

Motif

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.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning the parentage of children. · view the constellation · filed as J1273

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No 412

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

Children by Day and by Night · ATU 1856 1 recorded variant

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