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The ship of fools is an old allegory, which has long been used in Western culture in literature and paintings. With a sense of self-criticism it describes the world and us humans on it as a vessel whose deranged passengers neither know nor care where they are going. Ships of Fools featured as wagons in medieval Carnival Parades.

Ship of Fools may also refer to:

• Ship of Fools, a medieval European method of dealing with mental illness
• Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff), a 1494 satire by Sebastian Brant
• Ship of Fools, a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter
• Ship of Fools, a 1965 motion picture, based on the novel
• The Ship of Fools, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch
• Ship of Fools, a Grateful Dead song
• Ship of Fools, a popular UK-based Christian website
• Ship of Fools, an album by Tuxedomoon

Compare "God fashioned the ship of the world carefully" from The Black Riders by Stephen Crane.

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