Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a bottle

Motif

Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a bottle.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1565.1

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Mpongwe) Nassau 64 No. 13.
general *Type 60
general Wienert FFC LVI 54 (ET 141), 98 (ST 123)
general Halm Aesop No. 34
general *Crane Exempla 202 No. 165

Within the index

Filed under Inappropriate entertainment repaid.

Filed beside it

Bugs unable to eat honey at banquet of bees, and bees unable to eat dung at bug's dinner Crop division between parrot and cat: they try to cheat each other by inviting to a dinner in turns every day

Carried in tale types

Fox and Crane Invite Each Other · ATU 60 1 recorded variant

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