Object sent to go by itself

Motif

Object sent to go by itself.

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

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
Spanish Espinosa III 147
Indonesia Coster-Wijsman 72 No. 130.
general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 272 No. 281

Within the index

Filed under Animal or object expected to go alone.

7 finer motifs beneath it

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." Sickle laid in field and told to cut grain Fool sends letter home by a flooded river

Filed beside it

Animal sent to go by itself

Carried in tale types

Other Objects or Animals Sent to Go by Themselves ' e · ATU 1291D 1 recorded variant

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