Rabbit sold as letter-carrier. Alleged to be a swift deliverer of letters

Motif

Rabbit sold as letter-carrier. Alleged to be a swift deliverer of letters.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Sale of worthless articles. · Sale of worthless animals. · view the constellation · filed as K131.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general *Type 1539
general *BP II 10
general Köhler-Bolte I 323
general *Herbert III 35

Within the index

Filed under Animal sold as messenger.

1 finer motif beneath it

Alleged speaking hare sold as messenger

Filed beside it

Bird sold as messenger

Carried in tale types

Cleverness and Gullibility · ATU 15391 recorded variant

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