Snake mistaken for a whip by a blind man

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Snake mistaken for a whip by a blind man.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Animal or person mistaken for something else. · view the constellation · filed as J1761.6.1

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Snake thought to be flute. Bites tiger who tries to play flute.

Carried in tale types

Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319*1 recorded variant

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