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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

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa III 147
  • ItalianBasile 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.)
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