Horse taught to live without food. Dies

Motif

Horse taught to live without food. 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

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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 Type 1682
general Wienert FFC LVI 72 (ET 364), 129 (ST 370)
general Halm Aesop No. 176.

Within the index

Filed under Fatal disregard of anatomy.

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Nature of a baby misunderstood Fool carries wife across stream head downwards and drowns her Fatal disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Horse Learns Not to Eat (previously The Groom Teaches his Horse to Live without Food) · ATU 16821 recorded variant

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