Fools do not know what a crayfish is. Shoot it and build a rampart around it

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Fools do not know what a crayfish is. Shoot it and build a rampart around it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd ignorance. · Absurd ignorance. · view the constellation · filed as J1736.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 *Wesselski Bebel II 114 No. 43.

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Filed under Fools and the unknown animal.

Filed beside it

Fools do not know what an owl is and attack it Unknown animal: a pig captured in a pit

Travels with

The attack on the hare (crayfish). Seven men make strenuous plans for the attack on the fierce animal. One screams with fright and the animal runs away. (Cf. J1736.1.)

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