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Motif

Getting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheese.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2173.2

Filed across the traditions
  • England Baughman.
  • general Field Pent Cuckoo 8
Within the index

Filed under Short-sighted fool loses his food.

Filed beside it
Sleeping trickster's feast stolen. Before eating his booty the numskull sleeps The bird boasts about capturing the rabbit. Meantime other birds eat the rabbit Deer lost through premature celebration. A fool in celebration of the capture of a deer puts his clothes on the bound deer. He throws a knife to cut the deer's throat but the knife cuts the snare and the deer runs away with the clothes Fool kills chickens by throwing them off a balcony against a stone. Kites carry them off Crocodile goes after the second child. He finds two children bathing in the river and carries one to his hole. He tells the child to wait while he goes for the other child. Both children escape Trickster travels while fish cook: they burn up Man saves trouble by milking cow directly into his mouth How to remove hairs from salt. Washed with water, salt melts away

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