Absurd attempt to change animal nature

Motif

Absurd attempt to change animal nature.

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 J1908

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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.

general Wienert FFC LVI 45ff. (ET 31, 37, 38, 39, 54, 241, 420, 422), 87ff. (ST 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 504)
general Halm Aesop Nos 149, 360, 373, 374, 375
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 427, 430.

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Filed under Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits.

3 finer motifs beneath it

The cat and the candle. A man has a cat trained to hold up lighted candles on its head. The king has a mouse let loose. The cat drops the candle and chases the mouse Cat transformed to maiden runs after mouse Frog-woman betrays self by croaking

Filed beside it

Absurd ignorance concerning the laying of eggs Absurd ignorance concerning the hatching of eggs Absurd ignorance concerning animal's eating and drinking Absurd ignorance concerning place for animal to be kept Absurd ignorance about milking animals. (Cf. J1903.2.)Absurd ignorance about slaughtering animals Absurd disregard of animal's nature or habits – miscellaneous

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