Cow (hog) taken to roof to graze

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Cow (hog) taken to roof to graze.

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 J1904.1

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

EnglishClouston Noodles 55
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 15
SpanishEspinosa III 147 Nos. 181–188.
general *Type 1210
general *Köhler-Bolte I 66, 135
general *Fb "ko" II 241a, "tyr" III 908b
general Christensen DF XLVII 219 No. 81

Within the index

Filed under Absurd ignorance concerning place for animal to be kept.

Filed beside it

The pent cuckoo. Fools build an enclosure to keep in the cuckoo. She flies over the hedge. They say that they have not built the hedge high enough Hogs made to sleep in trees to cure their filthy habits. All are killed Nest built in tree for fish

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