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The Wise Men of Gotham
Wise, or mad?
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Cuckoo Bush mound
- Legend from
- Gotham
- Tone
- Comic
More fools pass through Gotham.
The story says King John's road was due to cross Gotham, and every road he used became a public highway. To put him off, the villagers pretended to be mad. They tried to fence in a cuckoo and to drown an eel. The king went another way. Stapleton (1899) calls this version improbable and lists twenty printed Merry Tales.