Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.)

Motif

Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.)

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · Appearances deceive. · view the constellation · filed as U113

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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.

general Wienert FFC LVI 61, *66 (ET 232, 304), 123 (ST 321, 322)
general Halm Aesop Nos. 172, 248.

Within the index

Filed under Appearances deceive.

Filed beside it

Many books do not make a scholar Beard on she-goats do not make a male Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already Other ways in which appearances deceive

Carried in tale types

The Fox Investigates a Roar (previously The Fox and the Hare Hear Screaming) · ATU 53*1 recorded variant

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