Cheeses thrown down to find their way home

Motif

Cheeses thrown down to find their way home.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Animals or objects treated as if human – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1881.1.1

Cited in the index

general Clouston Noodles 35
general Field Pent Cuckoo 4.

Within the index

Filed under Object sent to go by itself.

Filed beside it

One cheese sent after another. Numskull lets one roll down hill; sends the other to bring it back Three-legged pot sent to walk home Table thrown out of the sledge; to go home by itself Spinning wheel is sent home by itself. The man asks his wife if it has arrived before him, finds that it has not. "I thought not. I came a shorter way." Sickle laid in field and told to cut grain Fool sends letter home by a flooded river

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