Ape throws away nut because of its bitter rind

Motif

Ape throws away nut because of its bitter rind.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: small inconvenience, large gain. · view the constellation · filed as J369.2

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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.

general *Crane Vitry 188 No. 127
general Herbert III 11, 36ff.
general Hervieux Fabulistes latins I 218 No. 47.

Within the index

Filed under Small inconvenience, large gain – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Solomon refuses water of immortality for himself when he cannot have it for his possessions also

Carried in tale types

The Monkey and the Nut · ATU 1861 recorded variant

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