M0497 (not in Perry). Source: Abstemius 156. This fable is not in Perry’s catalog; Perry omitted most of Abstemius’s fables. Compare the story of the thrush and the cuckoo, #421. See also the rooster’s fear of the fox skin, #566.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Image: Pica et Cuculus
497. Pica et Cuculus. Pica inter arborum frondes delitescentem cuculum conspicata, accipitrem esse suspicata est. Quare concitata fugiebat. Quod nonnullae aliae aves, quae prope aderant, intuitae, picam irridebant, quod pro accipitre cuculum fugeret. Quibus illa, “Malo,” inquit, “a vobis irrideri quam ab amicis fleri.”
