Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down — Mythoi

Motif

Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2165

Cited in the index

general Type 1213
general Clouston Noodles 59.

Within the index

Filed under Other short-sighted acts.

Filed beside it

Short-sightedness in dressing Short-sighted use of fire Carrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.) Short-sightedness in rowing Short-sighted lover is slow to follow up advantage Porridge eaten in different rooms. The porridge in one, the milk in another The slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening before Short-sightedness in carpentry Short-sightedness in caring for live-stock Short-sighted fool loses his food Foolish demands before death Short-sightedness in dealing with children Fool lets wine run in the cellar. He (she) falls into a study (or chases a dog) while the spigot is open No room left for the feast. A peasant on the way to a feast drinks so much ditch-water that he has no room left for the feast Burning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charter A fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken

Carried in tale types

Wood is Carried Down the Hill · ATU 1243 1 recorded variant

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