Citation

Takeda A. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 2011; 85(1): 124-152.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011)

DOI

10.1007/bf03374756

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Since a few years, a fable with the title The Scorpion and the Frog is circulating across various Internet sites. The fable is about a suicide attack: the scorpion kills in the end the frog as well as himself. The moral of the fable is: some people behave by nature murderously and suicidally at the same time. Where does this fable come from, and along which routes did it reach us? The essay sets off in search of its cross-cultural and intertextual traces.

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