The louse invites the flea. The flea bites the man and jumps away. The bed is searched and the louse killed

Motif

The louse invites the flea. The flea bites the man and jumps away. The bed is searched and the louse killed.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2137.1

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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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
India*Thompson-Balys.
general Chauvin II 89 No. 27
general Bødker Exempler 283 No. 29

Within the index

Filed under Death through lack of foresight.

Filed beside it

Dogs of wolf color join the wolves. As soon as they have killed the other dogs the wolves then turn on the wolf-colored dogs which they have persuaded to join them Bee rests on water lily which closes over it at night and kills it Crocodile swallows water-snake, which kills him Sheep killed by the butcher, who they are persuaded will spare them Camel and ass together captured because of ass's singing King attempts to visit the spirit world underground and dies in a tunnel

Carried in tale types

The Louse Invites the Flea · ATU 282C*1 recorded variant

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