Mouse teaches her child to fear quiet cats but not noisy cocks

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Mouse teaches her child to fear quiet cats but not noisy cocks.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals. · view the constellation · filed as J132

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 530.

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Filed under Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals.

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Animal gives wise example to man Animal behavior teaches man what to avoid Departing animal gives man counsels Crow inspects the three worlds in search of happiness Wisdom learned from example of insects

Carried in tale types

The Mice and the Rooster · ATU 112**1 recorded variant

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