Fool at baths believes he is someone else. Sees everybody naked. Puts straw on his shoulder to identify himself. Straw floats to another bather. "You are me and I am you!" — Mythoi

Motif

Fool at baths believes he is someone else. Sees everybody naked. Puts straw on his shoulder to identify himself. Straw floats to another bather. "You are me and I am you!"

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd absent-mindedness. · Uncertainty about own identity. · view the constellation · filed as J2012.6

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Person does not know himself.

Filed beside it

Numskull's beard cut off: does not know himself Woman's garments cut off: does not know herself Woman in tar and feathers does not know herself Fool in new clothes does not know himself Man does not know himself from another identically clad

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