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Motif

One contestant chooses straight path through stones; other circles about and wins.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2119.2.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Straight path not always shortest. (Cf. J21.5.)

Filed beside it
Taking the short-cut. Farmer takes a few feet off his journey and lifts a wheelbarrow over 22 stiles in so doing

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