Taking the prescription. The fool eats the paper with the prescription on it — Mythoi

Motif

Taking the prescription. The fool eats the paper with the prescription on it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2469.2

Cited in the index

general Clouston Noodles 119.

Within the index

Filed under Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

A lentil in the soup. You said you wished a lentil soup; so I put one in. If you had wished more lentils you should have said so Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.) Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off Literal fool – something you have never experienced

Carried in tale types

The Mistaken Prescription (previously Leeches Prescribed by Doctor Eaten by Patient) [J1803 · ATU 1349N* 1 recorded variant

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