μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The ass without a heart. The ass as toll-gatherer is killed by the lion for asking for toll. The fox eats the ass's heart. When the lion asks for it, the fox replies that the ass could have had no heart since he was such a fool as to ask the lion for toll.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K402.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general **Keidel "Die Eselherz Fabel" Zs. f. vgl. Litgsch. n. ser. VII No. 58
  • general Gaster Exempla 229 No. 244
  • general Penzer V 130 n. 1
  • general *Chauvin II 99 No. 58
  • general Bødker Exempler 299 No. 63
Within the index

Filed under The lamb without a heart. Accused of eating the lamb's heart, the thief maintains that it had no heart.

Filed beside it
The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) The bird without a tail. Thief maintains that the bird had no tail
Carried in tale types

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