μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • ChineseChavannes II 324.
  • general *Type 1250
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 113
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 242 No. 124
  • general *Bolte Schweiz. Arch. f. Vksk. XXIII (1920-21) 36ff.
  • general Clouston Noodles 46
  • general Christensen DF XLVII 179ff., 193 No. 7
  • general Virginian: Parsons JAFL XXXV 302
Within the index

Filed under Numskull falls.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Wife carried up tree to sky in bag in husband's teeth. She asks question and he drops her when he answersNumskull going to heaven holding on tail of divine elephant, looses his hold to make gesture. He and all holding on to him fallThree men in a tree sing song and clap hands: they fall down and die
Filed beside it
Camel with ass on his back dances. Falls and is killedMonkey jumps over a ravine with his sword girded on. Falls to his deathCat crawls to steeple and tries to fly. FallsNumskull cuts off tree-limb on which he sitsWolves climb on top of one another to tree: lowest runs away and all fallIntruding wolf falls down chimney and kills himselfStargazer falls into wellBlind leading blind falls into pitMonkey jumps into water after a butterflyHedgehog and crab jump from boat after turtle. They fall on floating leatherWoman tries to climb rope of excrement and urine. (Cf. H1021.1.)Fool dangling from tree by hands tries to clap them together: fallsFool re-enacts the accident. Falls and injures self and others. (Cf. J2062.)
Carried in tale types

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