Fox trying to drown jug. Sticks his head into it and gets drowned himself

Motif

Fox trying to drown jug. Sticks his head into it and gets drowned himself.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2131.5.7

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. *66
Russian Andrejev No. *64.

Within the index

Filed under Numskull gets his head caught. (Cf. J2136.6.)

Filed beside it

Trickster puts on buffalo skull: gets head caught Numskull licks out pot: gets it caught on his head Numskull sticks his head in the branches of a tree Numskull sticks his head into the hole of a millstone. It rolls into the lake Wolf trying to catch tongue of camel puts head in camel's mouth: killed Jackal's head caught in pot of blue dye. Animals make him king, but detect him from his cry and turn him out

Carried in tale types

The Jug as Trap · ATU 68A 1 recorded variant

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