Alleged messenger from relatives in distress given goods to deliver — Mythoi

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Alleged messenger from relatives in distress given goods to deliver.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Nature of gullibility. · view the constellation · filed as J2326.4

Filed across the traditions

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

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