Fox feigning illness admitted to hen-roost and kills the hens

Motif

Fox feigning illness admitted to hen-roost and kills the hens.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K828.2

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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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Herbert III 36
general Hervieux IV 221 No. 50

Within the index

Filed under Bloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animal.

Filed beside it

Fox in sheepskin gains admission to fold and kills sheep Wolf tries to cheat ewe by posing as ram

Carried in tale types

Fox Plays Dead and Catches Bird · ATU 56A*2 recorded variants

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