Animal caught in animal carcass. (Cf. J2131.5.)

Motif

Animal caught in animal carcass. (Cf. J2131.5.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2136.6

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Filed under Numskull brings about his own capture.

1 finer motif beneath it

Greedy jackal caught in carcass of dead bullock

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." Trickster pinched by shellfish (crab) Careless thief caught

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Numskull gets his head caught. (Cf. J2136.6.)

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