The needle (or the like) falls into the sea: sought the next summer

Motif

The needle (or the like) falls into the sea: sought the next summer.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd searches for the lost. · view the constellation · filed as J1921

Cited in the index

general Type 1280.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd searches for the lost.

Filed beside it

Marking the place The rejected bread resought. Numskull looks for bread that he threw away a year before Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand

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