Fool sells balls of thread to great lizard. Next day he finds a treasure there

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Fool sells balls of thread to great lizard. Next day he finds a treasure there.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Gift or sale to animal (or object). · view the constellation · filed as J1852.1.1

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Numskull sells cow to bird. When he comes for his money the bird flies to a trash pile, where the fool finds a treasure. (Cf. J1853.1.1.)

Filed beside it

Oil sold to iguana. Treasure found

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