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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

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia DeVries'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

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