Dupe wishing to learn to play fiddle has finger caught in cleft of tree — Mythoi

Motif

Dupe wishing to learn to play fiddle has finger caught in cleft of tree.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deceptions into self injury – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1111.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1147A*.
general *Type 151, 1159
general *BP I 68

Within the index

Filed under Dupe puts hand (paws) into cleft of tree (wedge, vise).

1 finer motif beneath it

Dupe wishing to learn to play flute puts tongue in split bamboo

Filed beside it

Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast Dupe caught in crack in ground. Dies Ogre helps tortoise who snaps jaws to and catches him

Carried in tale types

The Ogre Caught in the Cleft (previously The Ogre Wants to Learn to Play) · ATU 1159 1 recorded variant
A Man Teaches a Wild Animal to Play the Fiddle (previously The Man Teaches Bears to Play the Fiddle) · ATU 151 1 recorded variant

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