Sickle laid in field and told to cut grain

Motif

Sickle laid in field and told to cut grain.

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 J1881.1.6

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Object sent to go by itself.

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Cheeses thrown down to find their way home 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."Fool sends letter home by a flooded river

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