The constellation
K553 "Wait till I get fat." Captured person (animal) persuades his captor to wait and fatten him before eating him
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- "Wait till I am fat enough to race you." Hero to be eaten by cannibals when he is fattened enough to beat them in a race. He runs away · K553.0.1 entry
- Calf: "Wait till I grow up." · K553.0.2 entry
- "Let me catch you better game." Captured animal pretends to help captor bring more desirable victim. Escapes · K553.1 entry
- Wait for the fat goat. Troll lets the first two goats pass on the bridge so that he may eat the biggest one. He is thrown in the water · K553.2 entry
- Ram promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.) · K553.3 entry
- Wolf is requested by horse to start eating from the rear; kicked to death · K553.4 entry
- "Soak me in the pond so that I will be juicy." · K553.5 entry
- Too dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees · K553.6 entry
carried in tale type
- 'Wait till I Am Fat Enough · ATU 122F