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Motif

Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2101

Cited in the index
  • general *Type 1281
  • general BP II 72 n. 1
  • general Christensen DF XLVII 219ff. no. 82.
Within the index

Filed under Remedies worse than the disease.

1 finer motif beneath it
Lighting the cat's tail. Woman wishing to punish a cat fastens cotton to its tail and lights it. The whole village is burnt
Filed beside it
Expensive means of being rid of insects Expensive extermination of rodents Moving the fireplace. When it gives too much heat numskulls decide to move it instead of putting out the fire Protecting the prince's slumber. To keep croaking frogs from disturbing him, the fools shoot at the frogs all night Man kills self to make quarrelsome wife a widow Taming the bull by cutting off his horns. It makes him the more violent Punishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double reward Gray hair cured by pulling it out so that the person is bald Getting the calf's head out of the pot. A calf gets its head caught in a pot. A fool cuts off the calf's head and then breaks the pot to get it out Snakes in pond to be killed: eels also killed Fools take fatal overdose of medicine Remedies worse than the disease – miscellaneous
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