Dupe makes boat of mud. It melts. (Cf. J2186.)

Motif

Dupe makes boat of mud. It melts. (Cf. J2186.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2171.1.3

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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
American NegroHarris Friends 69ff. No. 9.

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Filed under Short-sightedness in boat-building.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Attempts to make canoe of sand. (Cf. H1021.3.)Building boat of clay

Filed beside it

Ship built with a wooden saw. The ship has no bottom and is so narrow that nothing can get into it The ogre tars the hero's boat, thinking to injure him

Travels with

Trickster's false creations fail him. A trickster creates men from his excrements (or the like). They melt in the sun

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