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- The Wolf Descends into the Well in one Bucket and Rescues the Fox in the Other.

The Wolf Descends into the Well in one Bucket and Rescues the Fox in the Other. A fox (hare, hedgehog) falls or jumps into a well because he is thirsty (is fleeing from someone, or wants to trick the wolf into coming down) and sits in a bucket. He persuades the wolf (jackal) to get into the other bucket, and this lifts the fox’s bucket up to the top so he can get out [K651].
Often men find the wolf in the well and beat him.

K651

Documented in a Hebrew fable of Rashi de Troyes (1040–1105), then in the 12th century in Petrus Alfonsus, Disciplina clericalis (No. 23). Also documented in 1178 in the Roman de Renart (IV,1–478).

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