μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tit for tat. Wolf tells sick lion that fox does not esteem him. Fox overhears it. Later fox tells lion that his only cure lies in his wrapping himself in the wolf's skin. Wolf is killed.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Other fatal deceits. · view the constellation · filed as K961.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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
  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
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Filed under Disease to be cured by heart of monkey. (Cf. K544.)

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