Breath in the cold thought to be tobacco smoke

Motif

Breath in the cold thought to be tobacco smoke.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1801

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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 Type 1320.

Within the index

Filed under One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Words in a foreign language thought to be insults Learned words misunderstood by uneducated Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood Other misunderstandings of words Setting sun mistaken for fire Other things with mistaken identities

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