Money from the broken statue. Fool sells goods to a statue and when it will not pay him knocks it to pieces. He finds a treasure inside. (Cf. J1852.1.)

Motif

Money from the broken statue. Fool sells goods to a statue and when it will not pay him knocks it to pieces. He finds a treasure inside. (Cf. J1852.1.)

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 J1853.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 4.
general Type 1643
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 211 No. 426
general Wienert FFC LVI 80 (ET 459), 138 (ST 430)
general Halm Aesop No. 66
general Chauvin VIII 94 No. 65

Within the index

Filed under Fool sells goods to a statue. He is told not to sell to talkative people. The statue is the only one he can find who is not talkative.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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.)

Carried in tale types

Money inside the Statue (previously The Broken Image) · ATU 1643 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “treasure” · wander