Madmen (fools, professional fools) — Mythoi

Motif

Madmen (fools, professional fools).

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Other social orders – miscellaneous.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Professional fool 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

Filed beside it

Social status of foreigners

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Contract made by madman void. (Cf. P192.)

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