Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come

Motif

Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come.

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 J2214.3

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 243 No. 128.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd generalization from a particular incident.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Waiting in the graveyard for the thief. He must eventually come here Waiting for the thief to return for the bolster. After the cover is stolen, the numskulls conclude that the thief will certainly return for the bolster Waiting for the thieves to return for invoice of goods stolen

Filed beside it

Peas will burn. Fool warns those who ride through a field of peas. "You will burn your horses' feet. I burned my mouth with hot peas the other day." Conclusion: youth and age are alike. Reason: he tried in vain as a youth to lift a certain stone; he has also tried in vain as an old man Human milk as best diet (for baby). Fool therefore will take nothing but milk from his wife and starves the baby Man is servant of the animals (for he supplies feed for them). Fish so reason Men must have been calves once (for they are fond of milk). Fish so reason. (Cf. B233.1.) Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels Fool carries his wife to the remedy instead of the opposite Dipping into cold water to cure fever, since hot iron is so cooled Starving colt fierce from hunger, but fool refuses to feed it lest it become fiercer England must be full of widows. So concludes widow's daughter, who makes her living by spinning, when she sees so much warm goods from England False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area

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