Goods sold to object

Motif

Goods sold to object.

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

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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.

SpanishEspinosa III 147.
general *Type 1642
general *BP I 59
general Köhler-Bolte I 135

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

The Good Bargain · ATU 16421 recorded variant

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