"Thank God they weren't peaches!" A man plans to take peaches as a present to the king. He is persuaded rather to take figs. They are green and the king has them thrown in his face. He is thankful that they weren't peaches

Motif

"Thank God they weren't peaches!" A man plans to take peaches as a present to the king. He is persuaded rather to take figs. They are green and the king has them thrown in his face. He is thankful that they weren't peaches.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Thankful fools. · Thankful fools. · view the constellation · filed as J2563

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general *Type 1689
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 227 No. 71
general *Clouston Tales II 407ff.

Carried in tale types

'Thank God they Weren't Peaches · ATU 16891 recorded variant

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