Man taken to be sheep. (Cf. X424.)

Motif

Man taken to be sheep. (Cf. X424.)

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 J1765.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greek The Odyssey , Book XX
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 48 48.— OLD SULTAN.
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XIII
Norse The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus , Book 9
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , King Lear Act 3

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Person thought to be animal.

Filed beside it

Shepherd taken to be she-ass

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

The devil in the cemetery. A sexton hears thieves in the cemetery cracking nuts and thinks it is the devil cracking bones. With the gouty parson on his back he comes upon the thieves who, thinking it is their companion with the sheep, call out, "Is he fat?" The sexton: "Fat or lean, here he is!"

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