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

Cited in the index

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 1310 1 recorded variant
Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319* 1 recorded variant

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