TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Trade routes full of flowers: East-west forays on the tracks of the fable - The Scorpion and the Frog
JO  - Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
A1  - Takeda, A.
SP  - 124
EP  - 152
VL  - 85
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0012-0936
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03374756
ID  - ref1
ER  -