Snake disregards warnings to improve his manners: eaten by crab

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Snake disregards warnings to improve his manners: eaten by crab.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Attention to warnings. · view the constellation · filed as J1053

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Wienert FFC LVI 50 (ET 99), 60 (ET 219), 89 (ST 13, 281)
general Halm Aesop No. 346.

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Filed under Attention to warnings.

Filed beside it

Death's three messengers. Warns man by loss of appetite, loss of desire for drink, and sickness. Man does not recognize the messengers Cranes disregard warnings and are killed Man disregards mother's warning and is punished Man disregards priest's warning and is punished

Carried in tale types

The Snake Trying to Surround the Crab Refuses to Straighten himself Out · ATU 279*1 recorded variant

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