Shepherd shuts up the lion in the yard with the live-stock. He hopes to capture the lion, but loses all his beasts

Motif

Shepherd shuts up the lion in the yard with the live-stock. He hopes to capture the lion, but loses all his beasts.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2172.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Wienert FFC LVI 67 (ET 317), 136 (ST 414)
general Halm Aesop No. 250.

Within the index

Filed under Short-sightedness in caring for live-stock.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?"Wolf locked up with the sheep

Filed beside it

The shepherd who cried "Wolf!" too often. When the wolf really comes no one believes him

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