ATU 20A Animals Caught in a Pit Eat One Another Up (previously The Animals are Caught in a Pit)

ATU 20A

Animals Caught in a Pit Eat One Another Up (previously The Animals are Caught in a Pit)

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Animal Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Animals go a-journeying. 1 variant
Beginning with the smallest. Animals are to eat one another up to avoid starvation. The fox persuades them to start with the smallest. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.