Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded — Mythoi

Motif

Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Prudence in ambition. · view the constellation · filed as J514.2

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
India Thompson-Balys.
general Chauvin II 95 No. 47
general Bødker Exempler 292 No. 51

Within the index

Filed under One should not be too greedy.

Filed beside it

Kite tries to carry off so many partridges that he drops them all Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded Greedy pig looks up into tree for figs. This causes his death Greedy man dissatisfied with gold looks for jewels; finds only iron and eventually nothing Fowler wants two rubies as ransom for a caught goose; loses goose and both rubies

Carried in tale types

The Rebounding Bow · ATU 180 1 recorded variant

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