Sowing salt to produce salt

Motif

Sowing salt to produce salt.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1932.3

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 1200
general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 209 No. 423
general Christensen DF XLVII 206, 231 no. 57

Within the index

Filed under Absurd practices connected with crops.

Filed beside it

Numskulls sow cooked grain Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow 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

Sowing Salt · ATU 1200 1 recorded variant

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