Tuesday, December 18, 2001

T0349. The Dogs and the Rocks

Feral dogs surround Nasruddin and his donkey. He tries to grab rocks, but the rocks are cobblestones: he cannot pull one loose. Nasruddin complains to God that this is a cursed place: the dogs run free and the rocks are frozen to the ground.

Notes: The version in Suresha has "after a snow" as if the rocks were literally frozen to the ground, but I think this may be a misunderstanding: I've seen at least one version of this story where the fool has never seen a cobblestone road before; that seems to be better motivated than a story about rocks being frozen to the ground.



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