Cat fails to be beguiled into releasing mouse. The mouse tells the cat a tale. The cat answers at last, "Even so, I eat you up." — Mythoi

Motif

Cat fails to be beguiled into releasing mouse. The mouse tells the cat a tale. The cat answers at last, "Even so, I eat you up."

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by false plea. · view the constellation · filed as K561.1.1

Within the index

Filed under Animal captor persuaded to talk and release victim from his mouth. Usually cock and fox, fox and wolf, or mouse and cat.

Filed beside it

Frog escapes after telling crow to sharpen his bill before eating him

Carried in tale types

The Cat and the Mouse Converse · ATU 111 1 recorded variant

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