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
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Italian Novella Rotunda.
- general Jacobs Aesop 211 No. 48
Carried in tale types
- The Crab Walks Backward: Learned from his Parents · ATU 276 1 recorded variant
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