The axes thrown away. The first lets his axe fall. The others throw theirs in the same place

Motif

The axes thrown away. The first lets his axe fall. The others throw theirs in the same place.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2171.4

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general Type 1246
general Fb "hammer" IV 199a
general Christensen DF XLVII 194.

Within the index

Filed under Short-sightedness in carpentry.

Filed beside it

Short-sightedness in boat-building Short-sightedness in roofing Builders throw away beams from the scaffolding until it all falls down Bird nest of salt melts away Man on camel has doorway broken down so he can ride in. It does not occur to him to dismount. (Cf. J2199.3.)

Carried in tale types

Axes Thrown Away · ATU 12461 recorded variant

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