Death through lack of foresight — Mythoi

Motif

Death through lack of foresight.

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

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Filed under Foolish disregard of personal danger.

7 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Numskull injured Numskull dragged Numskull falls Numskull makes himself sick (uncomfortable) Numskull starves himself Numskull brings about his own capture Foolish interference in quarrel of the strong fatal to the weak Disastrous jump to retrieve lost object [First Edition: J2159. Foolish disregard of personal danger – miscellaneous.]

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