Oh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother her

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Oh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother her.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2465.7

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Disastrous following of instructions.

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 Washing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills it Clearing out the room. Fool throws out all the furniture Washing the room. Fool floods it 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

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