μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Peace among the animals. (Peace fable.) The fox tries to beguile the cock by reporting a new law establishing peace among the animals. Dogs appear; the fox flees. "The dogs have not heard of the new law."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Animals retort concerning their dangers. · view the constellation · filed as J1421

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 62
  • general *BP II 207
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 52 (ET 120), 98 (ST 125)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 225
  • general Jacobs Aesop 214 No. 59
  • general *Chauvin II 202 No. 51, V 241 No. 141
  • general *Lancaster PMLA XXII 33
  • general *Graf FFC XXXVIII 26
  • general Fb "ræv" III 114a. Spanish: Espinosa III No. 225
Within the index

Filed under Animals retort concerning their dangers.

Filed beside it
Good bath. A cat seeing a mouse leave a bath says, "Good bath!" Mouse: "If I had not seen you!" Roast falcon. A falcon reproaches a cock for fleeing from the master who has fed him. The cock: "I have never seen a falcon roasted." Where the foxes will meet. Two foxes in a trap converse: "Where shall we meet again?" "In three days at the furrier's."
Carried in tale types

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