Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales

111: The Cat and the Mouse Converse

ATU > 1-299: ANIMAL TALES > 100-149: Wild Animals and Domestic Animals > 111: The Cat and the Mouse Converse

Description

The mouse tells the cat a tale. The cat answers, »Even so, I eat you up.»

Variants

111A. Wolf Unjustly Accuses Lamb and Eats him

When all the lamb's defences are good the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (Usually accused of stirring up water lower in stream.)

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External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Author	Year	Source
Catties sit in the Kiln-Ring spinning	111	British			Internet Archive
Dutch Courage	111A*	British			Internet Archive
La promesa de un borracho	111A*	España	Sandra Pérez Cordón	2014	Corpus de Literatura Oral
Mouse and Mouser	111	British			Internet Archive
Mouse in the Ale-cask	111A*	British			Internet Archive

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