Heathcock prefers home with hardships to travel in foreign lands — Mythoi

Motif

Heathcock prefers home with hardships to travel in foreign lands.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J215.3

Cited in the index

general *Type 232.

Within the index

Filed under Present evil preferred to change for worse.

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 Oxen decide not to kill butchers, since inexpert killers might replace them Monk goes to wilderness to escape work on material things. Finds that he must work to live and returns to monastery

Carried in tale types

The Birch-cock and the Birds of Passage · ATU 232 1 recorded variant

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