United cocks defeat partridge. When they quarrel they are defeated

Motif

United cocks defeat partridge. When they quarrel they are defeated.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Strength in unity. · view the constellation · filed as J1025

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Wienert FFC LVI 48 (ET 70), 135 (ST 409)
general Halm Aesop No. 22.

Within the index

Filed under Strength in unity.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Cranes fighting as allies defeat all enemies. If they quarrel they are doomed Cats unite in battle against a wolf. They destroy wolf

Filed beside it

The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson Fight of lions and bulls. Lion succeeds only when bulls separate Dog leader fears defeat because his forces are of different breeds. Wolves are all of one kind Quails caught in net rise up in a body with net and escape. As soon as they quarrel they are caught

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