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

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

Cited in the index

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 bites Bald man aims at a fly: hurts his head House burned down to rid it of insects Burning the wasp nest. The house catches fire and burns Clothes burned to rid them of insects Crop burned to rid it of insects Frogs to eat insects, snakes to eat frogs. Snakes eat numskull's family

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