“fellow-lodger” — Mythoi

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Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. K443.7

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ATU 170 The Fox Eats his Fellow-lodgers