Fool cuts off tails of oxen so that they will look like fine steeds — Mythoi

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Fool cuts off tails of oxen so that they will look like fine steeds.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Fatal disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as J1919.4

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 769.

Within the index

Filed under Fatal disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

The remodelled stork. A trickster cuts off the bill and legs of a stork to make him look more like a real bird Where the ducks ford. A fool is asked where the river is fordable. He says, "Everywhere." The man tries to ride across and is almost drowned. The fool, "Those little ducks were able to cross here; why couldn't a big fellow like you?" The two extra pounds. A dog has eaten 14 pounds of butter; the fool squeezes 16 pounds from him Genitals cut off through ignorance Simpleton's ignorance of anatomy leads him to share his wife with a priest Fool believes that he has begot child with his sister by an earbox The man without a member: foolish wife gives her husband money to buy himself one Cowboy shoots his wife when she breaks her leg (or is injured in another way)

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