Three brothers take turns using mule. None of them feeds him, supposing that the others have. The mule dies

Motif

Three brothers take turns using mule. None of them feeds him, supposing that the others have. The mule dies.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Fatal disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as J1914.2

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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 Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 575.

Within the index

Filed under Horse taught to live without food. Dies.

Filed beside it

The underfed warhorse. Fails in the war

Carried in tale types

The Communal Mule · ATU 1682**1 recorded variant

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