Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience

Motif

Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J154

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icelandic Völsunga saga ch. 11, Boberg
Lithuanian Balys Index No. *911
Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Indonesian DeVries's list No. 230.
general *Cosquin Études 85ff.
general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 52

Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wise words of father Dying saint leaves wise message to followers. Message is cryptic, but is finally made clear

Filed beside it

Wisdom from old person Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher) Wisdom from holy man Wisdom (knowledge) from women Wisdom from fools Wisdom (knowledge) from dream Wisdom from angel Trial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judge Wisdom acquired by hanging in a tree Wisdom purchased Wisdom from God Tree of knowledge Wisdom from books Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just Inscription on walls for condensed education Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Wise words of dying woman (queen). (Cf. J154.)

Carried in tale types

The Father's Precepts Disregarded (previously Wise Through Experience) · ATU 910A 1 recorded variant

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