Setting sun mistaken for fire

Motif

Setting sun mistaken for fire.

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 J1806

Filed across the traditions

American Negro Harris Nights 230 No. 39, Work JAFL XXXII 403, Parsons MAFLS XVI 32.
general Christensen DF XLVII 176, 196

Within the index

Filed under One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Breath in the cold thought to be tobacco smoke Words in a foreign language thought to be insults Learned words misunderstood by uneducated Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood Other misunderstandings of words Other things with mistaken identities

Carried in tale types

Setting Sun (Rising Moon) Mistaken for Fire · ATU 1335* 1 recorded variant

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