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

Motif

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.

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

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa III 147
Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 4.
general *Chauvin VI 126 No. 280
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 211 No. 426
general Fansler MAFLS XII 352
general Clouston Noodles 144

Within the index

Filed under Goods sold to object.

1 finer motif beneath it

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.)

Carried in tale types

The Good Bargain · ATU 1642 1 recorded variant

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