Inability to find object one is carrying — Mythoi

Motif

Inability to find object one is carrying.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd absent-mindedness. · Inability to find own members, etc. · view the constellation · filed as J2025

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Filed under Inability to find own members, etc.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Man searches for axe which he carries on his shoulder Woman cannot find pastry which is sticking to her posterior

Filed beside it

Numskulls cannot find their own legs. A stranger helps them with a switch. (Usually get them mixed up when they sit down to bathe their feet.) Numskull cannot find ass he is sitting on Numskull doesn't recognize his own horse. Finds it only when the rest ride away and he takes the only one left Numskull rides backward. "I didn't get on backward but the horse seems to be left-handed." Fools try to fight with man inside of drum who seems to make the noise. Are really pounding each other Opium-smoker on journey asks his way about; ends up at his own house

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