Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales
157: Learning to Fear Men
Description
The fox undertakes to persuade the wolf of the frightfulness of men. They see an old man. The fox says this was a man but is no longer one. Likewise a boy (will be a man). Next a man with a gun. The wolf approaches and is shot. He tells the fox he could have defeated the man but for the man's spitting fire. [J17].
Variants
157A. The lion searches for man
A young lion, warned by parents to shun man, asks other large animals if they are man. He meets a man and is scornful of him, but man tricks him into entering a cage and leaves him to starve.
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