Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress

Motif

Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in provision for live. · Forethought in provision for food. · view the constellation · filed as J711.1

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 451.
general *Type 249
general *Chauvin III 58 No. 19
general Wienert FFC LVI 55 (ET 156, 157), 126 (ST 347)
general Halm Aesop No. 295, 401
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 845
general Jacobs Aesop 208 No. 36. Italian Novella: Rotunda

Within the index

Filed under In time of plenty provide for want.

Filed beside it

Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom Wise man stores grain against coming famine Industrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe

Carried in tale types

The Ant and the Cricket (previously The Ant and the Lazy Cricket) · ATU 280A 1 recorded variant

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