Insult worse than wound. The lion to the man: "The wound has healed, but the pain of harsh words still remains." — Mythoi

Motif

Insult worse than wound. The lion to the man: "The wound has healed, but the pain of harsh words still remains."

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – social. · view the constellation · filed as W185.6

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 161*
Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 159IV*
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Violence of temper.

Filed beside it

Man demonstrates his violence of temper. He overhears a man tell of his temper. In anger he enters and demands to know when he has ever lost his temper Prayer that overbearing knight's illness be increased. A little sickness has made him kind; more may make him kinder Temper lost from reading history. Man so angered that he refuses to pay his workmen Monk loses temper at cup and breaks it. [Inadvertant duplication of H1553.5.] Violence of judge's temper leads him to have men given death sentence unjustly

Carried in tale types

Enmity of Lion and Man · ATU 159B 1 recorded variant
The Man and the Wounded Snake (previously The Dead Child and the Snake's Tail) · ATU 285A 1 recorded variant

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