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Motif

Cat unjustly accuses cock and eats him. Although all the cock's defenses are good the cat tells him that she can no longer go hungry and eats him.

The nature of life. · Life's inequalities. · Rights of the strong. · view the constellation · filed as U31.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under 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.)

Filed beside it
Crow exercises rights of strong over dove who cannot defend self. Dove at crow's request sings to save her brood which crow kills after song

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