Elephant educated as drum beater

Motif

Elephant educated as drum beater.

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 J1882.3

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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 Foolish attempt to educate animals.

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Teaching chickens to talk. Fool believes they can be taught The ass as mayor. Fool made to believe that his ass (ox) has been educated and has become mayor

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