Encounter with clever children (woman) dissuades man from visit. On way to a city meets children and they are so clever that he turns back home, fearing how clever their parents must be

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Encounter with clever children (woman) dissuades man from visit. On way to a city meets children and they are so clever that he turns back home, fearing how clever their parents must be.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from inference. · view the constellation · filed as J31

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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.

JapaneseIkeda.
general *Wesselski Gonnella 118 No. 15, *Hodscha Nasreddin II 227 No. 481

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Cleverness of men disguised as peasants dissuades rivals from dispute. Wise men of two rival cities engage in dispute. One delegation disguises as peasants and debates with their adversaries. Latter withdraw fearing how clever the educated must be if their peasants are so learned

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Arrow as man's message shows lion how terrible man himself must be Blind man who feels young wolf recognises his savage nature Odor of the wine cask. How fine wine must been been to leave so good an odor

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