Farmer surpasses astronomer and doctor in predicting weather and choosing food

Motif

Farmer surpasses astronomer and doctor in predicting weather and choosing food.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · The unpromising surpasses the promising. · view the constellation · filed as L144.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 2448*
RussianAndrejev No. 2132
RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 921 II*.

Within the index

Filed under Ignorant surpasses learned man.

Filed beside it

Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain

Carried in tale types

Astronomer and Doctor at Farmer's House · ATU 921C*1 recorded variant

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