Motif
animal in lion skin exposed by its own voice
animal_in_lion_skin_exposed_by_its_own_voice
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES. / THE BIRTH STORIES. / INDEX 339 / INTRODUCTION.; lines 476-594 confidence: high
The hawker dresses the ass in a lion's skin and releases him in a barley-field; watchmen avoid it and report the news; armed villagers approach with chanks, drums, and shouting; the frightened ass cries like an ass.
The ass is dressed in a lion's skin and might be taken for a dangerous animal, but his ass-cry leads the future Buddha and villagers to know him as an ass.
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