Boat expected to grow into ship

Motif

Boat expected to grow into ship.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd lack of logic. · Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions. · view the constellation · filed as J2212.7

Cited in the index

general Christensen DF XLVII 189 No. 15.

Within the index

Filed under Effects of age and size absurdly applied.

Filed beside it

Two fifteen-year old slaves ordered: fool brings one thirty years old Burial in old grave to deceive angel. Fool thinks that the angel who comes to question him will pass him by since he has apparently been dead a long time Wooden anchor would hold if it were only large, thinks the fool The reef is old, the ship new. They think the vessel will endure the shocks better than the reef Swift when only a calf. A numskull who rides an ox to a tournament is ridiculed. He says, "He is swifter than a horse. You should have seen him run when he was only a calf." The Zodiac grows up: the Kid becomes the Goat. A fool who was born under the sign of the Kid declares that he was born under the Goat. "Hasn't it had time in these fifty years to become a goat?" Peasant no longer wants a horse since the new born foal is so heavy to carry Our children know local road; odd that grown stranger does not

Carried in tale types

Boat Believed to Have Had a Child (previously Boat Believed to Have Had a Colt) · ATU 1319H* 1 recorded variant

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