Fisher and hunter exchange catches for variety: soon return to original food

Motif

Fisher and hunter exchange catches for variety: soon return to original food.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · The power of habit. · view the constellation · filed as U136

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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.

JapaneseIkeda.
general Wienert FFC LVI 81 (ET 475), 111 (ST 227)

Within the index

Filed under The power of habit.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dissatisfied workmen exchange work: still more dissatisfied Beasts and fishes exchange places: fatal to both

Filed beside it

Newly rich cannot resist call for distribution of food to beggars Familiarity takes away fear Man soon learns to stand the smells of the tannery Knight doesn't want to go to heaven if there are no hunting dogs there Longing for accustomed food and living Mill horse when taken to war keeps going in a circle, as he has learned in the mill Habit of dishonesty (thievery) cannot be broken Power of habit – miscellaneous

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