Butter cask thought to be a dead man. Fools knock it in two

Motif

Butter cask thought to be a dead man. Fools knock it in two.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Things thought to be devils, ghosts, etc. · view the constellation · filed as J1783.1

Cited in the index

general Type 1314.

Within the index

Filed under Thing thought to be corpse.

Carried in tale types

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

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