Wolves climb on top of one another to tree: lowest runs away and all fall

Motif

Wolves climb on top of one another to tree: lowest runs away and all fall.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2133.6

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.
general Type 121
general *BP II 530 n. 3

Within the index

Filed under Numskull falls.

1 finer motif beneath it

Measuring the tower by piling up hampers. They place hampers on top of one another. The fool has them take out the two on the bottom

Filed beside it

Camel with ass on his back dances. Falls and is killed Monkey jumps over a ravine with his sword girded on. Falls to his death Cat crawls to steeple and tries to fly. Falls Numskull cuts off tree-limb on which he sits Men hang down in a chain until top man spits on his hands. They all fall Intruding wolf falls down chimney and kills himself Stargazer falls into well Blind leading blind falls into pit Monkey jumps into water after a butterfly Hedgehog and crab jump from boat after turtle. They fall on floating leather Woman tries to climb rope of excrement and urine. (Cf. H1021.1.)Fool dangling from tree by hands tries to clap them together: falls Fool re-enacts the accident. Falls and injures self and others. (Cf. J2062.)

Carried in tale types

Wolves Climb on Top of One Another (previously Wolves Climb on Top of One Another to Tree) · ATU 1211 recorded variant

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