Folk Tale

The Lion and the Mouse

Translations / Adaptations

Text title	Language	Author	Publication Date
Løven og musa	Norwegian	_	_
Lejonet och musen	Swedish	_	_
An Leòmhann agus an Luchag	Scottish Gaelic	_	_
Die Leeu en die Muis	Afrikaans	_	_
De leeuw en de muis	Dutch	_	_
Der Löwe und die Maus	German	_	_
Il Leone e il Topolino	Italian	_	_
Lauva un Pele	Latvian	_	_
Το λιοντάρι και το ποντίκι	Greek	_	_
Лев и Мышь	Russian	_	_
Lõvi ja Hiir	Estonian	_	_
Aslan ve Fare	Turkish	_	_
O Leão e o rato	Portuguese	_	_
El león y el ratón	Spanish	_	_
狮与鼠	Chinese	_	_
Лъвът и мишката	Bulgarian	_	_
Lew i Mysz	Polish	_	_
O león e o rato	Galician	_	_
Лав и миш	Serbian	_	_
Le lion et la souris	French	_	_
Leul şi Şoarecele	Romanian	_	_
El lleó i el ratolí	Catalan	_	_
Leijona ja hiiri	Finnish	_	_
האריה והעכבר	Hebrew	_	_
Lev a myš	Czech	_	_

ATU	075
Language	English
Origin	England

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A Lion asleep in his lair was awoken by a Mouse running over his face. Losing his temper he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it. The Mouse, terrified, piteously begged him to spare its life. "Please let me go," it cried, "and one day I will repay you for your kindness." The idea of so insignificant a creature ever being able to do anything for him amused the Lion so much that he laughed aloud, and good-humouredly let it go. But the Mouse's chance came, after all. One day the Lion got entangled in a net which had been spread for game by some hunters, and the Mouse heard and recognized his roars of anger and ran to the spot. Without more ado it set to work to gnaw the ropes with its teeth, and succeeded before long in setting the Lion free. "There!" said the Mouse, "you laughed at me when I promised I would repay you: but now you see, even a Mouse can help a Lion."

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