Fool tries to dry up spilt wine with meal

Motif

Fool tries to dry up spilt wine with meal.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2176.1

Cited in the index

general Type 1387
general *BP I 522.

Within the index

Filed under Fool lets wine run in the cellar. He (she) falls into a study (or chases a dog) while the spigot is open.

Filed beside it

Drinking gruel by making hole in pot. Gruel runs out

Carried in tale types

The Woman Goes to get Beer · ATU 1387 1 recorded variant
The Man who Does his Wife's Work · ATU 1408 1 recorded variant

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