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

Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 1387
general BP I 316, 521ff.
general *Fb "tosse" III 832a, "tønde" III 935a, "øl" III 1175
general Christensen DF L 49
general Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 4.

Within the index

Filed under Other short-sighted acts.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Fool tries to dry up spilt wine with meal Drinking gruel by making hole in pot. Gruel runs out

Filed beside it

Short-sightedness in dressing Short-sighted use of fire Carrying the plow horse so as not to tramp up the field. (Cf. J2103.2.)Short-sightedness in rowing Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down Short-sighted lover is slow to follow up advantage Porridge eaten in different rooms. The porridge in one, the milk in another The slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening before Short-sightedness in carpentry Short-sightedness in caring for live-stock Short-sighted fool loses his food Foolish demands before death Short-sightedness in dealing with children No room left for the feast. A peasant on the way to a feast drinks so much ditch-water that he has no room left for the feast Burning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charter A fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken

Carried in tale types

The Woman Goes to get Beer · ATU 13871 recorded variant

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