Food given to object. (Cf. J1871.)

Motif

Food given to object. (Cf. J1871.)

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 J1856

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 1, Chapter 3
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XI XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 46

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Meat fed to cabbages

Filed beside it

Gift to animal or object Goods sold to animals Goods sold to object

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home

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