Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse — Mythoi

Motif

Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · Appearances deceive. · view the constellation · filed as U114

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general Wienert FFC LVI *44 (ET 24), *101 (ST 141)
general Jacobs Aesop 203 No. 14

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 Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.) 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 Mountain Gives Birth to a Mouse · ATU 299 1 recorded variant

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