μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Keeping rain from the trunks. Numskulls take out the clothing and cover the trunks to keep rain off.

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 J2129.6

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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.

  • general Penzer V 116 n. 1.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Fools make a boat go over a precipiceQuarreling heirs destroy the entire property involvedGetting 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 yearFool sticks needle in haywagon. He has been told to stick it in his sleeve. It is lostOld shoes patched with newHorse drawn across ice till skin is rubbed offFool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields

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