Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master)

Motif

Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master).

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Animals in legal relations. · view the constellation · filed as B271.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Italian NovellaRotunda.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648
general *Wesselski Theorie 20

Within the index

Filed under Animals as plaintiffs.

Filed beside it

Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot Grain as damages for injury to cat

Carried in tale types

Animals Ring Bell and Demand Justice · ATU 207C1 recorded variant

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