"Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it

Motif

"Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1013.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

American NegroHarris Friends 60 ff. No. 8.
general *Type 8
general *Dh IV 239
general *Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 67ff.

Within the index

Filed under False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Making wife beautiful by burning her Burning children on promise of giving them fawn's beautiful spots

Filed beside it

Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?""Painting" with a red hot iron Trickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatally False hair-restorer injures patient Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness)

Travels with

Remedy: covering with dry leaves. Victim burned up. (Cf. K1013.2.)Fox persuades bear to lie in the haycock and wait for sheep. He sets fire to the hay. (Cf. K1013.2.)

Carried in tale types

False Beauty Treatment (previously 'Painting' on the Haycock) · ATU 81 recorded variant

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