Town mouse and country mouse. Latter prefers poverty with safety.
The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J211.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 15 No. 5
- Japanese Ikeda.
- general *Type 112
- general Crane Vitry 199 No. 157
- general Wienert FFC LVI *59 (ET 208), 124 (ST 325)
- general Halm Aesop No. 297
- general Jacobs Aesop 202 No. 7
- general Albini Atene e Roma VI 175. Spanish Exempla: Keller
Within the index
Filed under Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth.
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- Country Mouse Visits Town Mouse · ATU 112 1 recorded variant
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