User blog comment:Mools/The king has donkey ears!/@comment-75.48.4.20-20101012140751

(My internet isn't working right, but this is the ever-lazy Wang Yao) I'm not sure how well it's known in America or even my own state, but I was surprised to hear this after learning about it for the first time yesterday- a version of it is mentioned in the Wife of Bath's tale in the Canterbury Tales! (Imagine my surprise! xD) It was a little different where I read it- in our version he told his wife, and she told a pond or some-such. (But it mentioned in the sidebar of the one you speak of!)