Beschrijving
The Fox Sees All Tracks Going into Lion’s Den but none Coming out. A lion who is too weak (lazy) to hunt any more pretends to be sick and stays in his den. One by one the animals come to visit him and he eats them. When the fox comes, he sees the tracks going in, but none coming back out. He decides not to go in [J644.1]. Cf. Type 66A.
Motief
J644.1
Commentaar
Aesopic fable (Perry 1965, 448 No. 142). Documented by Horace, Epistulae (I,1,74) and by Plutarch, Moralia (79A). Popular as a proverbial phrase.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
50A
Subgenre
sprookje