Objects ascribed human feelings

Motif

Objects ascribed human feelings.

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 J1875

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Filed under Absurd sympathy for animals or objects.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Kernel tries to escape death. A fool eats nuts. A kernel slips from him. The fool: "Everything tries to escape from death." Complaint of the porridge pot. The woman thinks the boiling pot is complaining The homesick wave. Numskulls try to take home a wave of the sea in a bamboo rod. At home when it refuses to wave they say that it is homesick for its mother, the sea Coin weeps. Numskull thinks money piece covered with perspiration after he has held it for awhile is weeping

Filed beside it

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 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 Animals or objects kept warm Relieving the beast of burden Absurd sympathy for animals or objects – miscellaneous

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