Looking through the gun barrel. The numskull (stupid ogre) is shot.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2131.4.1
Motif
Cited in the index
- general Types 1158, 1228.
Within the index
Filed under Numskull puts out his eyes.
Carried in tale types
- The Ogre and the Gun (previously The Gun as Tobacco Pipe) · ATU 1157 1 recorded variant
- Firing a Gun · ATU 1228 1 recorded variant
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