One cheese sent after another. Numskull lets one roll down hill; sends the other to bring it back

Motif

One cheese sent after another. Numskull lets one roll down hill; sends the other to bring it back.

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 J1881.1.2

Cited in the index

general *Type 1291
general BP I 521.

Within the index

Filed under Object sent to go by itself.

Filed beside it

Cheeses thrown down to find their way home 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

Carried in tale types

One Cheese Sent to Bring Back Another · ATU 1291 1 recorded variant

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