Fool writes letter very slowly: recipient cannot read fast

Motif

Fool writes letter very slowly: recipient cannot read fast.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd lack of logic. · Other logical absurdities. · view the constellation · filed as J2242.2

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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.

U.S.*Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been.

Filed beside it

Scribe cannot write a letter because he has bad leg. Must carry letter in person since no one else can read it

Carried in tale types

Illiterates (previously Learning to Read) · ATU 1331*1 recorded variant

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