μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Foolish messenger muddles message.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Bungling fool. · Bungling fool. · view the constellation · filed as J2671.4

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under The forgetful fool.

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A fox or a hare? A servant is sent by his master to find a girl for him. If he returns with one he is to say, "I have a fox"; if without, "I have a hare." When he returns he has forgotten the agreement. "I don't know whether it is a fox or a hare, but the girl is down stairs Fool keeps repeating his instructions so as to remember them. (He usually forgets them.) Bungling fool forgets what elephant is called. Says it is an "earth egg" (confused with name for potatoes)

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