Crocodile swallows water-snake, which kills him — Mythoi

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Crocodile swallows water-snake, which kills him.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2137.4

Cited in the index

general Herbert III 44
general Hervieux IV 192 No. 18.

Within the index

Filed under Death through lack of foresight.

Filed beside it

The louse invites the flea. The flea bites the man and jumps away. The bed is searched and the louse killed Dogs of wolf color join the wolves. As soon as they have killed the other dogs the wolves then turn on the wolf-colored dogs which they have persuaded to join them Bee rests on water lily which closes over it at night and kills it Sheep killed by the butcher, who they are persuaded will spare them Camel and ass together captured because of ass's singing King attempts to visit the spirit world underground and dies in a tunnel

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