Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances."

Motif

Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances."

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2136.3

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 33 No. 128.

Within the index

Filed under Numskull brings about his own capture.

Filed beside it

Coyote wears fox's rattle; caught in brush and injured Trickster gets caught on a fishhook Trickster pinched by shellfish (crab) Careless thief caught Animal caught in animal carcass. (Cf. J2131.5.)

Carried in tale types

The Goat Eats in the Garden and Is Caught · ATU 127B* 1 recorded variant

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