Planting a hog in order to grow pigs

Motif

Planting a hog in order to grow pigs.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1932.4

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 209 No. 423.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd practices connected with crops.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Planting animal's tail in order to produce young animals Planting bones to produce animal

Filed beside it

Numskulls sow cooked grain Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow Sowing salt to produce salt 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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