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Motif

Feeding mother. Fool stuffs and kills her.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2465.3.2

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

  • general Espinosa: JAFL XXVII 119.
Within the index

Filed under Feeding the child. Fool feeds it steaming food and kills it.

Filed beside it
Shoving the child. Numskulls, told to shove the boy along if he is lazy about weeding, do so with their weeding-knives and kill him

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