The dog refuses to help the wolf. A farmer plans to kill a faithful old dog. The wolf makes a plan to save the dog. The latter is to rescue the farmer's child from the wolf. The plan succeeds and the dog is rewarded. The wolf in return wants to steal the farmer's sheep. The dog refuses his assistance

Motif

The dog refuses to help the wolf. A farmer plans to kill a faithful old dog. The wolf makes a plan to save the dog. The latter is to rescue the farmer's child from the wolf. The plan succeeds and the dog is rewarded. The wolf in return wants to steal the farmer's sheep. The dog refuses his assistance.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K231.1.3

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JapaneseIkeda.
general *Type 101

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Filed under Refusal to perform part in mutual agreement.

Filed beside it

Mutual agreement to sacrifice family members in famine. Trickster refuses to carry out his part of the bargain Mutual agreement to divide food. Trickster eats other's food and then refuses to divide his own

Carried in tale types

The Old Dog as Rescuer of the Child (Sheep) · ATU 1011 recorded variant

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