Mother crab blames her children for not walking straight

Motif

Mother crab blames her children for not walking straight.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Miscellaneous aspects of wisdom. · view the constellation · filed as J1063.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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Italian NovellaRotunda.
general Jacobs Aesop 211 No. 48

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Filed under Pot calls kettle black.

Filed beside it

Drunk man makes sport of another man for being drunk

Carried in tale types

The Crab Walks Backward: Learned from his Parents · ATU 2761 recorded variant

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