Cat's tail mistaken for worm

Motif

Cat's tail mistaken for worm.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · One animal mistaken for another. · view the constellation · filed as J1759.5

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Other mistaken animals.

Filed beside it

Scotsman thinks moose is a mouse, asks what rats look like in this country. (Cf. X1423.)Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble Numskull thinks fireflies are mosquitoes carrying lanterns to find victims Bull mistaken for horse

Carried in tale types

Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319*1 recorded variant

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