μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Numskulls sow cooked grain.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1932.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *DeVries FFC LXXIII 246
  • general *Fb "så" Penzer V 67 n. 3
Within the index

Filed under Absurd practices connected with crops.

Filed beside it
Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow Sowing salt to produce salt Planting a hog in order to grow pigs Sowing needles (like seed) Harvesting early for half a crop Stones watered to make them grow. (Cf. J1896.1.)
Carried in tale types

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