Sowing needles (like seed)

Motif

Sowing needles (like seed).

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1932.5

Cited in the index

general Köhler-Bolte I 135.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd practices connected with crops.

Filed beside it

Numskulls sow cooked grain Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow Sowing salt to produce salt Planting a hog in order to grow pigs 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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