Oxen decide not to kill butchers, since inexpert killers might replace them — Mythoi

Motif

Oxen decide not to kill butchers, since inexpert killers might replace them.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J215.2

Cited in the index

general Wienert FFC LVI 65 (ET 289), 115 (ST 254).

Within the index

Filed under Present evil preferred to change for worse.

1 finer motif beneath it

Old woman prays for safety of cruel tyrant for fear a worse one will succeed him

Filed beside it

Don't drive away the flies. Wounded animal (man) refuses to have the flies driven away since they are now sated and their places will be taken by fierce and hungry flies Heathcock prefers home with hardships to travel in foreign lands Monk goes to wilderness to escape work on material things. Finds that he must work to live and returns to monastery

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