Tailless fox tries in vain to induce foxes to cut off tails

Motif

Tailless fox tries in vain to induce foxes to cut off tails.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought – miscellaneous. · Forethought – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J758.1

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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.

general *Basset RTP XXVI 267
general Jacobs Aesop 215 No. 65.

Within the index

Filed under Beware of following an interested adviser.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Noseless man persuades fools to cut off noses Tailless jackal persuades other jackals to cut off tails

Filed beside it

Crane advises fool to empty reservoir so he can reap all grain. Crane eats fish left at bottom Fish refuse fox's invitation to live on dry land and thus escape danger of fishermen

Carried in tale types

Torn-off Tails (previously The Buried Tail) · ATU 2A1 recorded variant

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