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"Never show your head again." Jester soon appears with large pot over head.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Metaphors literally interpreted. · view the constellation · filed as J2489.13

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Fool interprets metaphors (or slang expressions) about drink "Keep locks of everyone in your hand" (keep control of them). Fool interprets literally "Bite the ear" (speak secretly). Fool interprets literally "Cutting the paper of the accounts" (falsifying accounts). Fool cuts up account books "Quieting the patient." Fool does so by killing Giving half of savings away: "Whoever gives charity gets double in return." "Have a black look" (i.e., frown). Fool blackens face with charcoal "Cover with straw." Fool covers his mistress with straw and suffocates her. Should have thatched roof "Stick fast to everything you undertake." Foolish son seizes an ass by tail and gets kicked Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." "Don't allow paint to wear off my daughter's feet." Bridegroom carries her upside down across river and drowns her. (Cf. J2412.6.) Making money. "Rupees make more rupees." Stupid peasant sticks his sole rupee in hole and loses it

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