Literal fool – something you have never experienced — Mythoi

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Literal fool – something you have never experienced.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2469.5

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Filed under Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous.

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Literal fool feeds dogflesh to visitor to follow father's advice: "Feed him on food you have never eaten in your life." Literal obedience: soldier breaks woman's oil pot in two with sword when she asks him to show her something she never has seen in life

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

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