Animals confess sins to one another: fox and wolf forgive each other; punish ass. (Cf. V20.) — Mythoi

Motif

Animals confess sins to one another: fox and wolf forgive each other; punish ass. (Cf. V20.)

The nature of life. · Life's inequalities. · Justice and injustice. · view the constellation · filed as U11.1.1

Cited in the index

general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 350.

Within the index

Filed under Ass punished for stealing mouthful of grass; lion and wolf forgiven for eating sheep.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Animals confess sins to lion holding court. All the powerful animals forgiven. Ass and lamb are punished Penitent in confession worries about little sins and belittles the big ones

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Confession of sins

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