μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

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 J1904.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • EnglandBaughman.
  • general **Field Pent Cuckoo
  • general Clouston Noodles 27
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Fools try to hedge the cuckoo so that they will have summer the year round (the coming of the first cuckoo being the sign of the coming summer)Deer belled and enclosed like goats jump fence and escape
Filed beside it
Cow (hog) taken to roof to grazeHogs made to sleep in trees to cure their filthy habits. All are killedNest built in tree for fish
Travels with
Men build hedge to keep in the moonlight. (Cf. J1904.2.)
Carried in tale types

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