Foolishness of noise-making when enemies overhear — Mythoi

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Foolishness of noise-making when enemies overhear.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Prudence and Discretion. · Wisdom of caution. · view the constellation · filed as J581

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Filed under Wisdom of caution.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Wolf as dog's guest sings. He has drunk too much and sings in spite of the dog's warning. He is killed Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him Monk's enemies quarrel and thus save him. Robber who wants to steal monk's cow and devil who wants to steal his soul quarrel as to which shall begin first; they thus awaken him and the neighbors Drones dispute possession of honey. Ordered to make honey. Dispossessed Kites and crows quarrel over division of wounded fox. Meantime fox escapes

Filed beside it

Foolishness of premature coming out of hiding Caution in eating

Carried in tale types

The Fool and the Robbers · ATU 1341A3 recorded variants