Tortoise lets self be carried by eagle. Dropped and eaten

Motif

Tortoise lets self be carried by eagle. Dropped and eaten.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in conflicts with others. · Avoidance of others' power. · view the constellation · filed as J657.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 *Wienert FFC LVI 46, 50 Nos. 51, 98

Within the index

Filed under Care in selecting the creature to carry one.

Filed beside it

Youth trusts self to horse over which he has no control. Thrown off Crane persuades fish to let him change him from one lake into another: he eats fish

Carried in tale types

The Tortoise Lets itself be Carried by Birds (previously Tortoise Lets self be Carried by Eagle) · ATU 225A1 recorded variant

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