Ass loaded and commanded to go home

Motif

Ass loaded and commanded to go 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 J1881.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

SpanishEspinosa III 147.
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 272 No. 281

Within the index

Filed under Animal sent to go by itself.

Filed beside it

Fools send money by rabbit. Since he is a swift runner they expect it to reach the landlord in time Fishes to stop at his house. Fool directs them as he places them in stream

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