Helping the cuckoo. A numskull climbs a tree to help a cuckoo so that he may call louder than the one in the neighboring forest. Meanwhile his horse is eaten by a wolf

Motif

Helping the cuckoo. A numskull climbs a tree to help a cuckoo so that he may call louder than the one in the neighboring forest. Meanwhile his horse is eaten by a wolf.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Absurd sympathy for animals or objects. · view the constellation · filed as J1872.1

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Bebel I 137 No. 42.

Within the index

Filed under Creaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of him.

Filed beside it

Creaking wagon dies. When the wagon stops its creaking, fool decides it has died; he cremates it

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