The boy's disasters. Foolishly kills his horse and throws his axe into the lake to kill a duck. Undresses to recover axe. Clothes stolen. Goes into barrel of tar to hide. In tar and feathers

Motif

The boy's disasters. Foolishly kills his horse and throws his axe into the lake to kill a duck. Undresses to recover axe. Clothes stolen. Goes into barrel of tar to hide. In tar and feathers.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Bungling fool. · Bungling fool. · view the constellation · filed as J2661.4

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general *Type 1681.

Within the index

Filed under Bungling fool has succession of accidents.

Filed beside it

The fool accidentally kills his child and loses the body The fool seeks a midwife. Accidentally strikes the dog dead, drowns the midwife, and kills the child One woman to catch squirrel; the other to get the cooking pot. One falls from the tree and kills herself; the other breaks the pot

Carried in tale types

The Boy's Disasters · ATU 16811 recorded variant

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