Molbos helped a shepherd to chase away a stork from the grain field while preventing shepherd's big feet from trampling the field
A town of fools is the base of a number of joke cycles found in various cultures. Jokes of these cycles poke fun at the stupidity of the inhabitants of a real or fictional populated place (village, town, region, etc.). In English folklore the best known butt of jokes of this type are the Wise Men of Gotham. A number of works of satire are set in a town of fools.
The Motif-Index of Folk-Literature includes the motif J1703: "Town (country) of fools".[1]
^Stith Thompson, Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, medieval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. J. THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH
of Chelm (Yiddish: Khelemer khakhomim) are dumb Jewish residents of the Polish city of Chełm, a butt of Jewish jokes, similar to other townsoffools:...
(can be translated Foolsville, "townoffools"), a grotesque microcosm of the Russian Empire. Written in the Era of the Great Reforms in the 19th century...
more fools pass through Gotham than remain in it." According to the 1874 edition of Blount's Tenures of Land, King John's messengers "found some of the...
(also AT 1288 "Fools Cannot Find Their Own Legs", J2021. Numskulls cannot find their own legs). A sample plot is as follows. A bunch of people after sitting...
professional fools, sometimes called "licensed fools". Entertainment included music, storytelling, and physical comedy. Fool Societies, or groups of nomadic...
2022. "Only Fools and Horses - Christmas Crackers (1981)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2022. "Only Fools and Horses - The Long Legs of the Law (1982)"...
legendary townoffools: the Wise Men of Chelm. Kasrilevke, the setting of many of Sholem Aleichem's stories, and Anatevka, the setting of the musical...
paraphrased partial quote of a line from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that...
Fools Garden (until 2003 known as Fool's Garden) is a German band formed in 1991 in the city of Pforzheim. The founders of the group and the only permanent...
The town drunk (also called a tavern fool) is a stock character, almost always male, who is drunk more often than sober. In fiction, the town drunk character...
about other townsoffools: (how they sowed salt, how they dragged a bull to the church roof to graze the grass, etc.) The name of the town derives from...
Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman Dialect comedy Ethnic stereotype Townoffools "Why do people find racist jokes funny?". BBC News. 2002-05-07. Retrieved...
"Reviews for Why Do Fools Fall in Love". Rotten Tomatoes.com. Reviews weighed on Rottentomatoes.com give Why Do Fools Fall in Love a rating of 55%. Entry for...
Farewell to Fools is directed by Bogdan Dreyer, produced by Giuliano Doman, Daniel Zuta and written by Anusavan Salamanian. A Farewell to Fools was filmed...
refused to play "Acid Head" for its drug references. Two more singles, "TownofFools" and the psychedelia-tinged group theme song "Velvet Illusions", were...
nás v Kocourkově – 1932 (In Our Kocourkov; Kocourkov is a fictitious "townoffools", Czech equivalent to Gotham) Hej rup! – 1934 (the name is an exclamation...
the names of some teachers' singing groups, such as Singers’ Association of Moravian Teachers, and Kocourkov is a fictional Czech "townoffools". Despite...
released on April 1, 2024 as a part of Landfall's tradition of releasing a game on April Fools' Day. The gameplay of Content Warning bears similarities...
(2008–present) Studio albums No Fools, No Fun (2014) Sister (2020) EP Dear Santa (2019) "PUSS N BOOTS ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM "NO FOOLS, NO FUN" & TOUR DATES INCLUDING...
for a remote village Kotěhůlky or Horní Dolní ("Upper Lower"), for a "townoffools Kocourkov, etc. The phrase "kde dávají lišky dobrou noc" (literally...
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