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Motif

Disregard of danger to objects or animals – miscellaneous.

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

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

8 finer motifs beneath it
Fools make a boat go over a precipice Quarreling heirs destroy the entire property involved 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 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
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 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

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