"If you had hanged me you would have really been in trouble." (Similar to J2185.)

Motif

"If you had hanged me you would have really been in trouble." (Similar to J2185.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2185.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 9 CRUACHAN
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 110 110.— THE JEW AMONG THORNS.
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 5
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 4

Cited in the index

general Nouvelles Récréations No. 44.

Within the index

Filed under Dearly bought disgrace. A foolish priest is pushed into the water. "I wish I had drowned; then you would all have been disgraced."

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