μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ungrateful animal returned to captivity. A man rescues a serpent (bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. Fox as judge advises the man to put the serpent back into captivity.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever judicial decisions. · view the constellation · filed as J1172.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 27 No. 15
  • Indonesia Dixon 197 n. 36
  • American Negro Harris Nights 274 No. 46
  • Africa Milligan Jungle 98f., (Cameroon): Lederbogen 63.
  • general *Type 155
  • general **Krohn Mann und Fuchs 38
  • general **McKenzie MPh I 497ff.
  • general Herbert III 14, 37, 54
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 50
  • general *Chauvin II 121 No. 109
  • general IX 18 No. 4
  • general *Gaster Exempla 268 No. 441
  • general *Crane Vitry 201 No. 160
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 745
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 65 (ET 293), 147 (ST 515)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 97

…and 5 more.

Within the index

Filed under Judgment as rebuke to unjust plaintiff.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Unjust claimant of woman duped into entering jar. Jackal as judge declares that real husband shall enter jar woman carries on her head Animals render unjust decision against man since man has always been unjust to them
Filed beside it
Not the same purse as was lost. Finder of a purse containing 800 gulden returns it to owner for reward. Latter says that purse had 900 gulden in it. In court. Decision: The rich man speaks truth. The purse found is not the one he lost. The finder may keep it Payment with the clink of the money. Man sued for payment for enjoyment of the flavor of meat when roasting Turtle released by man to carry him across stream. Threatens him midway. Fox to be judge. Feigns deafness and makes turtle come so near shore man jumps and saves self
Carried in tale types

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