Good counsels bought

Motif

Good counsels bought.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J163.4

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
India *Thompson-Balys
Indonesia DeVries's list No. 229.
general *Types 910A, 910B
general *Fb "råd"

Within the index

Filed under Wisdom purchased.

Filed beside it

Man buys a pennyworth of wit Man to bring wife a purseful of sense One eye exchanged for wisdom. (Odin.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Precepts (previously Precepts Bought or Given Prove Correct) · ATU 910 1 recorded variant

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