Trickster pinched by shellfish (crab)

Motif

Trickster pinched by shellfish (crab).

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2136.4

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
Indonesia DeVries's list Nos. 60, 62, 63
West Indies Flowers 488.
general Bødker Exempler 281 No. 26

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 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." Careless thief caught Animal caught in animal carcass. (Cf. J2131.5.)

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