House burned down to get rid of rats. (Cf. J2102.4.1.)

Motif

House burned down to get rid of rats. (Cf. J2102.4.1.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2103.3

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IrishCuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Ch. 17BATTLE OF ROSNAREE
IrishCuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Ch. 19THE GREAT GATHERING AT MUIRTHEMNE

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Expensive extermination of rodents.

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 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

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House burned down to get rid of lizard

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