Numskulls try to kill mosquitoes with bows and arrows: only injure themselves

Motif

Numskulls try to kill mosquitoes with bows and arrows: only injure themselves.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2131.0.1

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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 Clouston Noodles 95.

Within the index

Filed under Numskull injured.

Filed beside it

Numskull beaten Numskull stung Numskull injures his limbs Numskull puts out his eyes Numskull gets his head caught. (Cf. J2136.6.)

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