Washing the grandmother – in boiling water

Motif

Washing the grandmother – in boiling water.

Deceptions. · Dupe's property destroyed. · Members of dupe's family killed. · view the constellation · filed as K1462

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.

SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 181–8
India*Thompson-Balys
New BritainDixon 122.
general *Type 1013

Within the index

Filed under Members of dupe's family killed.

2 finer motifs beneath it

To heat water for master's bath. Servant pours boiling water on him To cover house with straw: suffocates mother under straw

Filed beside it

Caring for the child: child killed Trickster deceives dupe into killing his own children Blinded slave's revenge. Threatens to jump from tower with lord's children unless lord blinds himself. Lord does so but slave jumps with children nevertheless Master's mother killed: wood heaved on her head [First Edition: K1490. Dupe's property destroyed – miscellaneous.]

Carried in tale types

Bathing (Warming) Grandmother · ATU 10131 recorded variant
Fool as Custodian of Home and Animals · ATU 1681B1 recorded variant

wander