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

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

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

JapaneseIkeda.
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

War between Birds (Insects) and Quadrupeds (previously War of Birds and Quadrupeds) · ATU 2221 recorded variant

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