C050. Baer (p. 70). How Brother Fox Failed to Get his Grapes

This is Chase050.

Types 0049 The bear and the honey
Motifs K1023 the bear and the honey
Notes
See discussion at Chase028 and Chase044

Baer concludes "Although this tale is closer to the motif description than the other two, in the absence of references in Baughman, it could well have reached the southern states by way of the slave trade route as part of the slaves' stock of tales."