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129. Donkey, Cat and the Lion's Head.

The familiar episode of the Wolf's head which occurs early in the Reynard cycle (see Percy Society Publications 12, Introduction, pages xxxiii-xxxiv) is, in African stories, often combined with that of the Goat in the Lion's den (or the Hyena's). Compare Rattray, Chinyanje, 149-152; Tremearne, 227-229; Fl, 22: 63-65


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