Foolish attempt to educate animals

Motif

Foolish attempt to educate animals.

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

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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 Animals or objects treated as if human – miscellaneous.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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 Elephant educated as drum beater

Filed beside it

Animal or object expected to go alone Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving The boat gets tired. The woman tries to tire out her rival's boat so as to win the race, but only tires herself Singing snails rebuked. A boy roasts snails and they make noise in cooking. "Wretches, your house burns and yet you sing!"Hens in mourning. Fool puts black clothes on his hen's necks. He tells people that they mourn their mother The mad wheelbarrow. Fools chain a wheelbarrow, bitten by a mad dog, lest it bite others Wants the organ to come and play for her. An old woman enraptured with the sound of a cathedral organ prays for it to come to her house and gives it directions as to where she lives Object foolishly blamed Preserving the cock's freedom. A boy recently home from school sees his mother trying to catch the cock. "Don't mother, don't break his freedom or we will suffer for it."Scholar speaks Latin on hunt so that the birds cannot understand him Woman thinks calf's bleating has accused her of stealing from harvest. Begs that people not believe what calf said. (Cf. N611.)Objects supposed to be born, grow, and die like animals. (Cf. J1932.)

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