Fool (stock character)

The fool is a stock character in creative works (literature, film, etc.) and folklore. There are several distinct, although overlapping, categories of fool: simpleton fool, wise fool, and serendipitous fool.

William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for Three Wise Men of Gotham, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose

The Motif-Index of Folk-Literature contains a group of motifs J1700-J2799. FOOLS (AND OTHER UNWISE PERSONS).

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