Belling the cat. Mice decide that a bell should be put on the cat but can find no one to tie it on her

Motif

Belling the cat. Mice decide that a bell should be put on the cat but can find no one to tie it on her.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in conflicts with others. · Forethought in defences against others. · view the constellation · filed as J671.1

Filed across the traditions

American Negro Harris Nights 311 No. 53.
general *Type 110
general Wienert FFC LVI 53 (ET 128), 96 (ST 97)
general Halm Aesop No. 15
general Jacobs Aesop 216 No. 67
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 260 No. 213, *Arlotto II 226 No. 93
general *Baum MLN XXXIV (1919) 462
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 634
general Dh IV 145ff.
general Herbert III 36ff. Spanish Exempla: Keller

Within the index

Filed under Practical and impractical defences.

Carried in tale types

Belling the Cat · ATU 110 1 recorded variant

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