Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket — Mythoi

Motif

Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by equivocation. · view the constellation · filed as K2315

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 35 No. *161, Espinosa Jr. No. 24.
general **Krohn Mann und Fuchs 61ff.
general Wienert FFC LVI 68 (ET 324), 102 (ST 150)
general Halm Aesop No. 35
general *Köhler-Bolte I l

Within the index

Filed under Deception by equivocation.

Filed beside it

The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel Oath literally obeyed Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer One day and one night. Saint has tribute remitted for a day and a night, i.e. forever, because there is but one day and one night in time Thieves dig field and drain tank when miser says gold is hidden there Deception by equivocation – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Farmer Betrays the Fox by Pointing · ATU 161 1 recorded variant

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