Numskull sits on eggs to finish the hatching. Cautions people to be quiet and not frighten the eggs. (Sometimes puts on honey and feathers before sitting on the eggs.)

Motif

Numskull sits on eggs to finish the hatching. Cautions people to be quiet and not frighten the eggs. (Sometimes puts on honey and feathers before sitting on the eggs.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits. · view the constellation · filed as J1902.1

Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "oeuf"
Spanish Espinosa III 147 Nos. 181–188
Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 4.
general Type 650
general *BP I 316
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 212 No. 433
general *Wesselski Bebel II 146 No. 148
general Christensen DF XLVII 210 No. 63

Within the index

Filed under Absurd ignorance concerning the hatching of eggs.

Filed beside it

Numskull tries to hatch out a calf from a cheese

Carried in tale types

Numskull Sits on Eggs to Finish the Hatching · ATU 1218 1 recorded variant

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