Cat transformed to maiden runs after mouse

Motif

Cat transformed to maiden runs after mouse.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits. · view the constellation · filed as J1908.2

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa III 275–277
Italian Novella Rotunda.
general *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XXII 244
general **Rohde Kleinere Schriften II 212ff.
general Wienert FFC LVI *45, 71, 78 (ET 34, 351, 444), 86 (ST 1)
general Halm Aesop No. 88
general Jacobs Aesop 218 No. 76

Within the index

Filed under Absurd attempt to change animal nature.

Filed beside it

The cat and the candle. A man has a cat trained to hold up lighted candles on its head. The king has a mouse let loose. The cat drops the candle and chases the mouse Frog-woman betrays self by croaking

Carried in tale types

A Cat Transformed to a Maiden Runs after a Mouse · ATU 218 1 recorded variant

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