Does not need roof when it is fair; cannot put it on when it rains

Motif

Does not need roof when it is fair; cannot put it on when it rains.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2171.2.1

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Ikeda. Cf. Russian: Andrejev No. 72.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 599
general Wienert FFC LVI 64 (ET 269), 134 (ST 402)
general Halm Aesop No. 222

Within the index

Filed under Short-sightedness in roofing.

Filed beside it

Fool roofs his house on the inside

Carried in tale types

The Roof in Good and Bad Weather · ATU 1238 1 recorded variant

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