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

157A: The lion searches for man

ATU > 1-299: ANIMAL TALES > 150-199: Wild Animals and Humans > 157A: The lion searches for man

Description

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.

Motives

J17

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External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Author	Year	Source
Without Title	157A	Netherlands		1554	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
El chacal y los polluelos	157A	Argelia	Óscar Abenójar	2013	Corpus de Literatura Oral

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