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Emperor wants to travel to paradise. Blindfolded and put on an ass.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Nature of gullibility. · view the constellation · filed as J2326.3

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  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under The student from paradise. A student tells a woman that he comes from Paris. She understands him to say from paradise and gives him money and goods to take to her husband.

Filed beside it
Foolish woman gives swindler money for her parents in heaven Dream explained as a dead father's demand for horses. Dupe gives them to trickster Alleged messenger from relatives in distress given goods to deliver

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