Wife follows written instructions. She is to follow instructions which the husband has written down on a card. He falls into a brook and is about to drown. She goes home to see what his instructions on this point are

Motif

Wife follows written instructions. She is to follow instructions which the husband has written down on a card. He falls into a brook and is about to drown. She goes home to see what his instructions on this point are.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish extremes. · Foolish extreme. · view the constellation · filed as J2516.3.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 139
general Christensen DF XLVII 226 No. 92.

Within the index

Filed under "Do nothing but attend to the horse." The youth obeys the command to such extent that he almost lets his master drown.

Filed beside it

The polite rescuers. Pupils are taught to clap their hands and say "God bless you" when one sneezes. As they are rescuing a drowning man by a rope he sneezes. They all clap their hands and he falls back into the water Command to use only one phrase. King let drown in bath "Only light the fire." Fool allows the house to burn down To tell nothing else than "very good news."

Carried in tale types

Wife Follows Written Instructions · ATU 1562B1 recorded variant

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