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Motif

The tail fisher. The bear is persuaded to fish with his tail through a hole in the ice. When he is attacked and tries to escape, he loses his tail.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1021

Filed across the traditions
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 159 No. 69
  • Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 44
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 438
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Remus 120 No. 25, Nights 113 No. 21, (Pennsylvania): Parsons JAFL XXX 214, (Virginia): Smiley JAFL XXXII 361, (South Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXXIV 12.
  • general *Type 2
  • general *BP II 111
  • general *Dh IV 219
  • general Krohn Bar (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 26ff.
  • general *Fb "ræv" III 113b, "bjørn" IV 43a, "ulv" III 971a. Lappish: Qvigstad Lappiske Eventyr II 3, III 3
Within the index

Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Tail buried (hair tied). Dupe bound fast and then attacked Basket tied to wolf's tail and filled with stones. Wolf is persuaded that it is filled with fish Bear persuaded to slide down rock. Wears off tail
Filed beside it
Dupe persuaded to steal food: cannot escape Getting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stung Beginning with the smallest. Animals are to eat one another up to avoid starvation. The fox persuades them to start with the smallest Eating his own entrails. The fox persuades the wolf to do so Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught Dupe made to sit on hot stone Hot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throat Dupe persuaded to climb rope for food: rope breaks Stone (hard fruit) thrown into greedy dupe's mouth Trickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures him Dupe injures self on fence of thorns surrounding food-plants
Carried in tale types

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