Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole

Motif

Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1022.1

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

HawaiiBeckwith Myth 21
N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 438
AfricaFrobenius Atlantis XII 291, 327, (Wachaga): Gutmann 188.
general *Type 41
general *BP II 109, IV 318
general *Dh IV 232
general *Chauvin III 45
general Wienert FFC LVI 60 (ET 226)
general Halm Aesop No. 31
general *Graf FFC XXXVIII 71ff.
general Herbert III 374 No. 11
general Fb "ulv" III 971a. Italian Novella: *Rotunda

Within the index

Filed under Dupe persuaded to steal food: cannot escape.

1 finer motif beneath it

Jackal eating into elephant's dead body becomes a prisoner when it dries up; is released when storm moistens hide

Filed beside it

Wolf tied to cow's horns. The fox ties one end of the rope around the wolf's neck, the other to the cow they intend to eat. The cow drags the wolf to the house where the man skins it Bear throws hens to the fox, falls from the roof-beam, and is beaten Wolf brings cake from the window-sill. He imitates the fox in so doing, but rings a bell, so that he is beaten Turtle induced to rob in a man's garden Fox eats cake: gets brass pot caught on neck Thieving wolf persuaded to stick head through handle of jar of wine so as to be able to carry it off and also sing

Carried in tale types

The Wolf Overeats in the Cellar · ATU 411 recorded variant

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