Teaching chickens to talk. Fool believes they can be taught

Motif

Teaching chickens to talk. Fool believes they can be taught.

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 J1882.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 1750
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 843.

Within the index

Filed under Foolish attempt to educate animals.

Filed beside it

The ass as mayor. Fool made to believe that his ass (ox) has been educated and has become mayor Elephant educated as drum beater

Carried in tale types

The Hen Learns to Speak (previously The Parson's Stupid Wife · ATU 1750 1 recorded variant

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