Quarrel and fight over details of air-castles

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Quarrel and fight over details of air-castles.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd plans. · view the constellation · filed as J2060.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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India*Thompson-Balys
ArabAzov JPASB (n.s.) II 402f.
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 269, Coster-Wijsman 65f. Nos. 107–110.
general *Type 1430
general BP III 275
general *Gerould MLN XIX 228

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Filed under Absurd plans. Air-castles.

Filed beside it

Man plants hedge: sheep will leave wool on the thorns and bring riches To build a palace in the sky: hawk as architect is let fly in the air Fools cast lots for royal purple of queen who is still alive Air-castle shattered by lack of forethought Foolish illustration of argument Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves Servant plans to deceive his master by refusing to eat Foolish waiting Sacrifice equal to the reward

Carried in tale types

The Man and his Wife Build Air Castles · ATU 14301 recorded variant
Foolish Plans for the Unborn Child · ATU 1430A1 recorded variant

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