The city girl: Do turnips grow in the ground or on trees? — Mythoi

Motif

The city girl: Do turnips grow in the ground or on trees?

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1731.1

Cited in the index

general Type 2010*.

Within the index

Filed under The city person ignorant of the farm.

Filed beside it

Man wants roasted honeycomb. Unwilling to admit that he does not know what a honeycomb is, a stupid man asks the innkeeper's wife to roast a slice of honeycomb

Carried in tale types

City People Visit the Country · ATU 1338 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “turnips” · wander