Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow

Motif

Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1932.2

Cited in the index

general *Type 1200
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 209 No. 423
general *Fb "så".

Within the index

Filed under Absurd practices connected with crops.

Filed beside it

Numskulls sow cooked grain 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.)

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