Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop

Motif

Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2103.2

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 25.

Within the index

Filed under Expensive extermination of rodents.

1 finer motif beneath it

King ruins his garden to get rid of viper

Filed beside it

The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese House burned down to get rid of rats. (Cf. J2102.4.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Carrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.)

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