The woman who asked for news from home. Gets many impossible answers, which she believes. E.g., "The cock has become sexton." – "Yes, that is why he sang so well in the morning." — Mythoi

Motif

The woman who asked for news from home. Gets many impossible answers, which she believes. E.g., "The cock has become sexton." – "Yes, that is why he sang so well in the morning."

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Nature of gullibility. · view the constellation · filed as J2349.4

Cited in the index

general *Type 1931.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of gullibility – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Dupe is made to believe horse will fly Wife makes husband believe that her paramour is Death Credulous king reads about ocean of milk and its properties

Carried in tale types

The Woman who Asked for News from Home · ATU 1931 1 recorded variant

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