The rooster and the fox
The rooster and the fox is an animal tale ( AaTh 61). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 58 (1845 No. 73) and comes from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Old Wise Men (Chapter 4: The Fox and the Simple-Minded Rooster ).
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The hungry fox hears the rooster crows in the winter night, which says it announces the coming day. The fox dances in front of him, pretends to worship his prophethood and wants to kiss his head. Then he bites off his head and laughs. The mouse that tells the raven this declares to trust his word, just not the other ravens. The raven promises to protect her. He lives with her as a friend and moves to the water with her. He introduces her to his friend, the turtle, and asks about her life story.
origin
The narrator is the mouse from No. 56 The Little Mouse Sambar or the Faithful Friendship of Animals and No. 57 The Man and the Snake , followed by No. 59 The Life Story of the Mouse Sambar . The texts come from Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Ancient Sages , a translation of the Indian Panchatantra .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 272-275, 391.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 391.