Stones watered to make them grow. (Cf. J1896.1.)

Motif

Stones watered to make them grow. (Cf. J1896.1.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1932.7

Filed across the traditions

Hawaii Beckwith 88.

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 Sowing needles (like seed) Harvesting early for half a crop

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Stones thought to reproduce

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