Numskulls go a-travelling. (Cf. J1742.)

Motif

Numskulls go a-travelling. (Cf. J1742.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Fools (general). · Association with fools. · Association with fools. · view the constellation · filed as J1711

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *BP II 555
general **Field Myth of the Pent Cuckoo.

Within the index

Filed under Association with fools.

1 finer motif beneath it

Animals helpless in sea-voyage together. Sheep, duck, and cock in peril The duck swims; the cock flies to the mast

Filed beside it

Numskulls quarrel over a greeting. Three men greeted by a stranger. Quarrel as to whom he greeted. "I greeted the biggest fool among you." A contest is held in which tales are told to decide which is the biggest fool Foolish married couples. (Cf. J1701, J1702.)Association of wise men with fools A fool objects to fools as companions. Leaves when placed between two fools at table Three silly pundits sent to a raja as the two-footed cattle he had demanded

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wander