Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light

Motif

Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Disregard of danger to objects (or animals). · view the constellation · filed as J2123

Cited in the index

general Type 1245
general *Fb "lys" II 483b
general Clouston Noodles 58, 64
general Christensen DF XLVII 215 No. 74, ibid. DF L 49.

Within the index

Filed under Disregard of danger to objects (or animals).

Filed beside it

Drying snow on the stove Candle put in the stove to dry: melts Putting the fish aside for Easter. They are put in one big pool, but an eel eats them up Guarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stones Numskull to water roots of tree. Digs up the tree to find the roots Looking for the hole. Numskull is to carry a can of oil with especial care since it has a little hole in it. In order to find the hole he turns the can about and lets all the oil run out Disregard of danger to objects or animals – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Simpleton sleeping in cold room breaks window to let the cold out. (Cf. J2123.)

Carried in tale types

Sunlight Carried in a Bag (Basket, Sieve) into the Windowless House · ATU 1245 1 recorded variant

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