Tuesday, December 11, 2001

T0052. Sawing the Branch You're Sitting On

Nasruddin is sawing branch out from under him. Passerby says he will fall. After he falls, Nasruddin is convinced the passerby is a fortuneteller.

Notes: In some versions, this leads to another story where the supposed fortune-teller gives Nasruddin a sign of death (like donkey braying) which leads Nasruddin to think he has died; see T0385.

This show up in Abstemius or somewhere in the later Aesop?

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