Washing the grandmother – in boiling water — Mythoi

Motif

Washing the grandmother – in boiling water.

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

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa III Nos. 181–8
India *Thompson-Balys
New Britain Dixon 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 1013 1 recorded variant
Fool as Custodian of Home and Animals · ATU 1681B 1 recorded variant

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