Marking the place

Motif

Marking the place.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd searches for the lost. · view the constellation · filed as J1922

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Cited in the index

general Christensen DF XLVII 177ff.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd searches for the lost.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Marking the place on the boat. An object falls into the sea from a boat. Numskulls mark the place on the boat-rail to indicate where it fell Marking the place under the cloud. Numskulls leave a knife in the field, marking the place by putting it under a heavy cloud. Next day the cloud is gone and the knife lost Marking the place in the sand. Vessel left under mound in sand while owner is swimming. Others make similar mounds so that it is lost

Filed beside it

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