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Motif

Snake rids himself of wasps: he lets himself be run over by a cart wheel along with them.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2102.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 49), 128 (ST 363)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 393.
Within the index

Filed under Expensive means of being rid of insects.

Filed beside it
Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bitesBald man aims at a fly: hurts his headHouse burned down to rid it of insectsBurning the wasp nest. The house catches fire and burnsClothes burned to rid them of insectsCrop burned to rid it of insectsFrogs to eat insects, snakes to eat frogs. Snakes eat numskull's family

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