Ass insults dying lion — Mythoi

Motif

Ass insults dying lion.

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – personal. · view the constellation · filed as W121.2.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller.
general Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 166), 112 (ST 233)
general Jacobs Aesop 202 No. 9

Within the index

Filed under Coward boasts when there is no danger. (Cf. J974, J978.)

Filed beside it

Fox insults caged lion Crow sits on sheep's back; afraid to sit on dog's Dogs tear up lion skin: fear living lion Coward gloats over robber slain by another person Monkey safe in tree insults gorilla as "broken face"

Carried in tale types

The Donkey Boasts of Having Kicked the Sick Lion · ATU 50C 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “insults” · wander