Beginning with the smallest. Animals are to eat one another up to avoid starvation. The fox persuades them to start with the smallest — Mythoi

Motif

Beginning with the smallest. Animals are to eat one another up to avoid starvation. The fox persuades them to start with the smallest.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1024

Cited in the index

general *Type 20
general *Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 81ff.

Within the index

Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

Filed beside it

The tail fisher. The bear is persuaded to fish with his tail through a hole in the ice. When he is attacked and tries to escape, he loses his tail Dupe persuaded to steal food: cannot escape Getting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stung Eating his own entrails. The fox persuades the wolf to do so Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught Dupe made to sit on hot stone Hot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throat Dupe persuaded to climb rope for food: rope breaks Stone (hard fruit) thrown into greedy dupe's mouth Trickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures him Dupe injures self on fence of thorns surrounding food-plants

Carried in tale types

Animals Caught in a Pit Eat One Another Up (previously The Animals are Caught in a Pit) · ATU 20A 1 recorded variant

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