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Motif

Dupe persuaded to steal food: cannot escape.

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

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Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole 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
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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 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

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