Guess how many eggs I have and you shall get all seven

Motif

Guess how many eggs I have and you shall get all seven.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · The easy problem made hard. · The easy problem made hard. · view the constellation · filed as J2712.2

Cited in the index

general Christensen DF XLVII 214 No. 73.

Within the index

Filed under "What do I hold in my hand?" (Ring). "In its first state it was in the mountains; it is round and flat." Fool: "A millstone."

Filed beside it

Guess what I have in my hand and I will give it to you to make egg-cake with. What does it look like? What outside and yellow inside. It is a hollowed turnip filled with carrots

Carried in tale types

'Guess how Many Eggs I Have and you shall Get all Seven!' A fool (farmer) says to his companion, 'If you can tell me how many eggs I have in my bag (young pigs my sow brought forth) you will get all seven (four, ten) · ATU 1346A* 1 recorded variant

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