Big tree thought to be snake. Killed with guns and spears

Motif

Big tree thought to be snake. Killed with guns and spears.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Objects with mistaken identity. · view the constellation · filed as J1771.1

Cited in the index

general Type 1315.

Within the index

Filed under Object thought to be animal.

Filed beside it

Old sausage (roll) taken for frightening animal Object thought to be a turkey Bush thought to be elephant Island thought to be large dog

Carried in tale types

Mistaking Harmless Objects for Dangerous Ones (previously The Buttercask Taken for a Dead Man) · ATU 1314 1 recorded variant
Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319* 1 recorded variant

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