Professional fool — Mythoi

Motif

Professional fool.

Society. · Other social orders. · Other social orders – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as P192.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , King Lear Act 5

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Madmen (fools, professional fools).

Filed beside it

Fool as clever judge Fool can walk on water Fool can live under water Fool makes friends with birds and beasts Customary to shave heads of demented so that they may be recognized as such Fool recognized by lump on his forehead

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