House burned down to rid it of insects

Motif

House burned down to rid it of insects.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2102.4

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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IndiaThompson-Balys
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 267.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 37
general *BP III 288
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 244 No. 137
general Christensen DF XLVII 219ff. No. 82

Within the index

Filed under Expensive means of being rid of insects.

1 finer motif beneath it

House burned down to get rid of lizard

Filed beside it

Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bites Snake rids himself of wasps: he lets himself be run over by a cart wheel along with them Bald man aims at a fly: hurts his head 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

Carried in tale types

House Burned Down to Rid it of Insects · ATU 12821 recorded variant

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