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Motif

Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2469.4

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  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous.

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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 Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.) Literal fool – something you have never experienced

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