Enmity between fisherman and dweller on the river. Fishing stirs up the water and makes it unfit for drinking. (Cf. U31.)

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Enmity between fisherman and dweller on the river. Fishing stirs up the water and makes it unfit for drinking. (Cf. U31.)

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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 84 (ET 512), 121 (ST 303)
general Halm Aesop No. 25.

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Ox likes loving strokes of man; flea fears them Collier and fuller cannot live together: one makes things clean, the other soils them Nightingale cannot lodge with birds whose nest is made of manure Royalty unable to endure coarse entertainment Animals try unsuccessfully to exchange food Good weather for one is foul for another What is one man's food is another man's poison – miscellaneous

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Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (Usually accused of stirring up water from lower in stream.) (Cf. U141.)

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