Company to sing like leader. When his foot is caught in a wheel, they keep repeating his call for help as a song

Motif

Company to sing like leader. When his foot is caught in a wheel, they keep repeating his call for help as a song.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish imitation. · Types of foolish imitation. · view the constellation · filed as J2417.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1694*
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 285 No. 64, FFC CXXVIII 244f. No. 148.

Within the index

Filed under Foolish imitation of leader.

Filed beside it

To imitate the leader. He slips and all fall to floor

Carried in tale types

The Company to Sing like the Leader · ATU 1694 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “repeating” · wander