Getting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next year

Motif

Getting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next year.

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 J2129.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 53
general Scala Celi 4b No. 21.

Within the index

Filed under Disregard of danger to objects or animals – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Fools make a boat go over a precipice Quarreling heirs destroy the entire property involved Fool sticks needle in haywagon. He has been told to stick it in his sleeve. It is lost Old shoes patched with new Keeping rain from the trunks. Numskulls take out the clothing and cover the trunks to keep rain off Horse drawn across ice till skin is rubbed off Fool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields

Travels with

Cow killed in order to get all the milk at once. (Cf. J2129.3.)

Carried in tale types

The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs · ATU 219E**1 recorded variant

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