Animal or object absurdly punished.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Animal or object absurdly punished. · view the constellation · filed as J1860
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Thief punishes the escaped ox. An ox strays on the rascal's land but escapes from him. The next week he sees the ox yoked up and gives him a beating. The master is astonished. The rascal: "Let me alone; he knows well enough what he has done."The ass deprived of his saddle. A man's coat is stolen when he leaves his ass for a moment. He takes the saddle off the ass and says that he will give it back if the ass will return the coatCow punished for calf's misdeeds. Blamed for not teaching calf betterMan flogs his shot. On a rainy day when shot will not go a man flogs the shot. It goes and he shoots a deerSickle punished by drowning. In a land where the sickle is not known the new sickle cuts off the head of a man. It is drownedMan avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughterMan punishes offending part of his body