Hidden goat discovered by his horn protruding above ground

Motif

Hidden goat discovered by his horn protruding above ground.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Wisdom of caution. · view the constellation · filed as J582.1

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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.

West IndiesFlowers 476.
general Phaedrus II No. 8

Within the index

Filed under Foolishness of premature coming out of hiding.

Filed beside it

Hidden stag discovered when he begins to eat grapevine too soon after hunters have passed

Carried in tale types

The Master Looks More Closely than the Farmhand · ATU 1621 recorded variant

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