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Motif

Fox's tail drops and frightens animals. In war between birds and quadrupeds the fox's lifted tail is to be the signal for the attack. Gnats sting the fox under the tail. He drops it and the quadrupeds flee.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by frightening. · view the constellation · filed as K2323.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 222
  • general BP II 435ff.
Within the index

Filed under The cowardly duelers. In the war between the wild and the domestic animals, the cat raises her tail; the wild animals think that it is a gun and flee.

Filed beside it
He-goat bleats and frightens animals assembled for fight Old woman and tiger flee in terror from each other
Carried in tale types

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