Trying to catch light in a mouse-trap.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Other absurd disregard of facts. · view the constellation · filed as J1961.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- general Type 1245**.
Within the index
Filed under White sheep-skin used as a source of light.
Carried in tale types
- Sunlight Carried in a Bag (Basket, Sieve) into the Windowless House · ATU 12451 recorded variant