The Bull went near his master’s son; he unfastened the Bull.
North-western Province.
In Tales of the Punjab (Mrs. F. A. Steel), p. 70, a lamb escaped from several animals that wanted to eat it by telling them to wait until it grew fatter. In the end it was eaten by a jackal.
In Folk-Tales from Tibet (O’Connor), p. 43, a wolf that was about to eat a young wild ass was persuaded by it to wait a few months until it became fatter. When the time came for meeting it, the wolf was joined by a fox and a hare, to which it promised to give a share of the meat. The hare’s suggestion that to avoid the loss of the blood the ass should be strangled was adopted, the fox borrowed a rope from a shepherd, the hare put slip-knots over the necks of each of the animals, and holding the end of the rope itself gave the word for all to pull. When they did so the wolf and fox were strangled, and the ass escaped.
[1] In a variant it is termed a Kaburussā creeper, perhaps the same as the Habalossā creeper in No. 94. [↑]
[2] In the variant both ends were tied on the animals’ necks. [↑]