Fools sent to buy cow procure a monkey instead

Motif

Fools sent to buy cow procure a monkey instead.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish bargains. · view the constellation · filed as J2081.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Foolish bargain: progressive type.

Filed beside it

Foolish bargain: horse for cow, cow for hog, etc. Finally nothing left Foolish bargain: good fish for worthless shell; shell with pearl in it for small fish Fool exchanges his wife with ox; thinks something to be wrong with her head (she has been marked with red at the parting of her hair)

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “procure” · wander