Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.) — Mythoi

Motif

Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.)

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2469.3

Cited in the index

general Penzer V 114 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Man gives up half property. Slave cut in two

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Bargain: to divide all winnings

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