Crab mistaken for tailor

Motif

Crab mistaken for tailor.

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 J1762.1.2

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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 Christensen DF XLVII 171.

Within the index

Filed under Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors.

Carried in tale types

Drowning the Crayfish as Punishment · ATU 13101 recorded variant
Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319*1 recorded variant

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