Numskull injured

Motif

Numskull injured.

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

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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.

U.S.Baughman.

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Filed under Foolish disregard of personal danger.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Numskulls try to kill mosquitoes with bows and arrows: only injure themselves Numskull beaten Numskull stung Numskull injures his limbs Numskull puts out his eyes Numskull gets his head caught. (Cf. J2136.6.)

Filed beside it

Numskull dragged Numskull falls Numskull makes himself sick (uncomfortable)Numskull starves himself Numskull brings about his own capture Death through lack of foresight Foolish interference in quarrel of the strong fatal to the weak Disastrous jump to retrieve lost object [First Edition: J2159. Foolish disregard of personal danger – miscellaneous.]

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