Objects supposed to be born, grow, and die like animals. (Cf. J1932.)

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Objects supposed to be born, grow, and die like animals. (Cf. J1932.)

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 J1896

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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.

general Christensen DF XLVII 189–190 no. 15.

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Filed under Animals or objects treated as if human – miscellaneous.

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Animal or object expected to go alone Foolish attempt to educate animals 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.)

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Absurd practices connected with crops

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