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
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 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 11571 recorded variant
- Firing a Gun · ATU 12281 recorded variant