The cat's only trick. She saves herself on a tree. The fox, who knows a hundred tricks, is captured

Motif

The cat's only trick. She saves herself on a tree. The fox, who knows a hundred tricks, is captured.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Miscellaneous clever acts. · Miscellaneous clever acts. · view the constellation · filed as J1662

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
India*Thompson-Balys
general *Type 105
general *BP II 119
general *Fb "kat" II 108b, "ræv" III 114a
general *Krohn Am Urquell III 177ff.
general Magoun California Folklore Quarterly IV 390ff., Jacobs Aesop 209 No. 38
general Wienert FFC LVI 66 (ET 303), 143 (ST 492)
general Halm Aesop 65
general *Chauvin III 54 No. 10
general *Herbert III 36ff. Roumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No 33 I*
general cf. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 215 No. 37 (turtle goes into hole).

Within the index

1 finer motif beneath it

One basket of wit better than twelve carloads of it. Female jackal saves herself and husband by quick thinking. (Cf. K622.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Cat's Only Trick · ATU 1051 recorded variant

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