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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

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 J2127

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general Penzer V 84
general Von der Leyen Das Märchen 78 and Herrigs Archiv CXIV 20 n. 2

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 Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light 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 Disregard of danger to objects or animals – miscellaneous

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