At this site:
Asbjornsen. The Greedy Cat
Crooke/Rouse. The Cat and the Parrot
Bryant. The Cat and the Parrot
Gordon. The Louse and the Crow
Stokes. The Jackal and the Cat
ATU 2028: A cat (wolf, troll, mouse, giant, bear, chick, pumpkin, woman, louse) with a huge appetite drinks a great quantity of milk, then eats a lot of food and devours the family with whom he lives. He goes out and people (animals) whom he meets on the road ask him why he is so fat (where he is going, why he is out so early). The cat lists everything he has eaten and announces that he will eat this person too. He devours everything he meets, e.g. certain animals, a cowherd, a flock of birds, a driver and his team of horses, etc. At the end, the cat bursts or meets an ox (someone else) he wants to eat which splits the cat's belly open with its horn (a knife). Everything that the cat had eaten comes out alive. In some variants, a childless couple use clay to make a child who eats everything he meets.
Z33.4 The fat troll (wolf). A troll eats the watcher's five horses and finally the watcher himself. The master goes to investigate: The troll: "I ate the five horses, I ate the watcher, and I will eat you." Does so. Likewise the wife, servant, daughter, son, and dog. The cat scratches the troll open and rescues all.
Z33.2 The fat cat. While the mistress is away, the cat eats the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle. When the mistress returns she says, "How fat you are!" The cat: "I ate the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle, and I will eat you." The cat meets other animals and eats them after the same conversation. Finally eats too many.
Z33.3 Woman meets a pig. "Good morning." "Why are you up so early?" "I am not up so early. I have drunk seven vats of milk and eaten seven plates of porridge and I shall eat you." She ate the pig.
Z33.4.1. Louse and crow make covenant of friendship: louse eats crow despite crow saying, "If I strike you once with my beak, you will disappear; how then can you talk of eating me?" Likewise louse eats loaf of bread, she-goat, cow, buffalo, five sepoys, wedding procession, with one lakh of people, elephant, tank of water. A sepoy cuts louse in two with his sword and rescues all.
Baughman 2028.
VIRGINIA: Chase Grandfather 75-81, 1958 [doc]
KENTUCKY: Roberts South 155-157, 265, 1955 (two variants)
Danish: Kristensen Dyrefabler 68ff. Nos. 131-144 [online at Hathi; Danish only]
Danish: Kristensen Dyrefabler 59ff. Nos. 119-130 [at Hathi; Danish only]
Cat and the Parrot - India - Clarkson and Cross / World: see addition stories in notes on pp. 223 and following
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