The monkey and the lost lentil. Lets all others he has in his hand fall in order to search for it

Motif

The monkey and the lost lentil. Lets all others he has in his hand fall in order to search for it.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: little gain, big loss. · view the constellation · filed as J344.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.
general *Chauvin II 104 No. 67
general Bødker Exempler 302 No. 70

Within the index

Filed under What one has is neglected in search for other things.

Filed beside it

Host wants to learn Hebrew even at risk of forgetting his own language

Carried in tale types

The Monkey with the Lentils · ATU 34C1 recorded variant

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