"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
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Golden Asse (Metamorphoses of Apuleius), Book 7, Chapter 28
- IrishCuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Ch. 9CRUACHAN
- Greco-RomanThe Golden Asse (Metamorphoses of Apuleius), Book 2, Chapter 8
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 110110.— THE JEW AMONG THORNS.
- Literary CrystallizationFour 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
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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 Nouvelles Récréations No. 44.
Within the index