Goods sold to animals

Motif

Goods sold to animals.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 1642
general *BP I 59f.
general *Chauvin VI 126 No. 280
general Fansler MAFLS XII 352.

Within the index

Filed under Gift or sale to animal (or object).

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Gift to animal or object Goods sold to object Food given to object. (Cf. J1871.)

Carried in tale types

Preparations for the Wedding (previously Fool Prepares for the Wedding [Funeral]) · ATU 1681A1 recorded variant

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