Washing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills it — Mythoi

Motif

Washing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2465.4

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 212 No. 431.

Within the index

Filed under Disastrous following of instructions.

1 finer motif beneath it

Heating water for woman to wash in. Boiling water poured over her

Filed beside it

Feeding the pigs wet meal. The wife throws the meal into the well and the pigs after it Piling up the pottery. The woman breaks the pots into fragments and piles them up Feeding the child. Fool feeds it steaming food and kills it Clearing out the room. Fool throws out all the furniture Washing the room. Fool floods it Oh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother her Cutting at the plow. Literal fool told to cut at plow if it sticks on roots cuts at bullock's legs "Sew shirts for servants." Fool sews them to trees "Collect goats under tree." Fool piles up their carcasses Fool takes threat to child as an order. Cuts off child's ears Plowing above the tree. Told to plow above a certain tree (on the hillside), numskulls haul oxen and plow into tree and destroy them "Plowing out potatoes." Fool plows them out of ground

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Numskull is sent to fetch children. He either smothers them during conveyance or scalds them during bathing. (Cf. J2465.4.)

Carried in tale types

The Man who Does his Wife's Work · ATU 1408 1 recorded variant

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