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

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

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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

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Confession of sins

wander