Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J171

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish myth*Cross
IcelandicBoberg
EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 213f., 216ff., 248f.
Jewish*Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

3 finer motifs beneath it

Counsel: if you take it you will be sorry; if you don't you will also be sorry. This advice given hero by helpful horse King questions six doctors Other maxims

Filed beside it

Wisdom from old person Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher)Wisdom from holy man Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience 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

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Merman caught by fisherman (released)

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