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Motif

Air-castle: pail of milk to be sold. Proud milkmaid tosses her head (or kicks the pail in her sleep) and spills the milk.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd plans. · view the constellation · filed as J2061.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas IV 55, 277.
  • general *BP III 264
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 520
  • general *Crane Vitry 154f. No. 51
  • general **Gerould MLN XIX 225
  • general Jacobs Aesop 219 No. 77
  • general Nouvelles Récréations No. 12
Within the index

Filed under Air-castle shattered by lack of forethought.

1 finer motif beneath it
Air-castles: pail of milk to be sold. Old woman thinks about the horse she is finally to get from the sale. In her imagination she spurs it and spills the milk
Filed beside it
Air-castle: the jar of honey to be sold. In his excitement he breaks the jar Air-castle: to sell hide of sleeping deer. In his excitement he wakes the deer, who runs off Toad having found money daydreams and is run over
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