Tortoise speaks and loses his hold on the stick. He is being carried through the air by a bird.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Talkative fools. · Talkative fools. · view the constellation · filed as J2357
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references
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.
- Spanish ExemplaKeller
- JapaneseIkeda.
- general *Penzer V 55 n. 3
- general *Chauvin II 90 No. 31
- general Bødker Exempler 285 No. 33
Carried in tale types
- The Tortoise Lets itself be Carried by Birds (previously Tortoise Lets self be Carried by Eagle) · ATU 225A2 recorded variants