Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days

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Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days.

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – social. · view the constellation · filed as W181.4

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general Wienert FFC LVI 58 (ET 194), 132, 139 (ST 383, 453).

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