The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese

Motif

The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2103.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 35
general *Crane Vitry 138 No. 11

Within the index

Filed under Expensive extermination of rodents.

1 finer motif beneath it

The cat and the eel-pie. Woman puts cat in flour bin to catch a mouse. The cat eats the pie in the bin and loses interest in the mouse

Filed beside it

Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop House burned down to get rid of rats. (Cf. J2102.4.1.)

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