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

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Ikeda
American Negro Harris Friends 69ff. No. 9.

Within the index

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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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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