Quenching the burning boat. People row to land and fetch water from a spring to put out the fire

Motif

Quenching the burning boat. People row to land and fetch water from a spring to put out the fire.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2162.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

JapaneseIkeda.
general Type 1330

Within the index

Filed under Short-sighted use of fire.

Filed beside it

Burning the temple to attain notoriety Fool whose house is burning puts wood on the fire

Carried in tale types

Extinguishing the Burning Boat · ATU 13301 recorded variant

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