Serpent (weasel) tries to bite a file — Mythoi

Motif

Serpent (weasel) tries to bite a file.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Zeal – temperate and intemperate. · view the constellation · filed as J552.3

Cited in the index

general Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 401, 402), 98 (ST 119, 120)
general Halm Aesop Nos. 86, 126
general Jacobs Aesop 206 No. 26.

Within the index

Filed under Intemperate pugnacity.

Filed beside it

Noblemen who quarreled over a device. Wiser of the two shows foolishness of such a fight Noblemen being ruined by long lawsuit decide wisely to join their families in marriage and save their fortunes Helmet left for woman to quarrel with. Woman insists upon quarreling with a nobleman. He says, "If you wish to quarrel, I shall leave my helmet here. You can talk to it." Brothers compose quarrel and save umpire's fee Boast at home. In Castile a Spaniard maintains to a Portuguese that the Spanish king is best of all. In Portugal, that the Portuguese king is best. "Each cock crows in his own barnyard."

Carried in tale types

The Snake Tries to Bite on a File · ATU 285E 1 recorded variant

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