If you hasten you will not get there. In spite of the saint's advice the teamster hastens and breaks his wagon

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If you hasten you will not get there. In spite of the saint's advice the teamster hastens and breaks his wagon.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · The unpromising surpasses the promising. · view the constellation · filed as L148.1

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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.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 255
general Alphabet No. 324.

Within the index

Filed under Slowness surpasses haste.

Carried in tale types

Festina lente (Haste Makes Waste) · ATU 288B**1 recorded variant

wander