Ship built with a wooden saw. The ship has no bottom and is so narrow that nothing can get into it

Motif

Ship built with a wooden saw. The ship has no bottom and is so narrow that nothing can get into it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2171.1.1

Cited in the index

general Type 1274*.

Within the index

Filed under Short-sightedness in boat-building.

Filed beside it

The ogre tars the hero's boat, thinking to injure him Dupe makes boat of mud. It melts. (Cf. J2186.)

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