Devil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-law — Mythoi

Motif

Devil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-law.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by frightening. · view the constellation · filed as K2325

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 51 No. 340*.

Within the index

Filed under Deception by frightening.

Filed beside it

Corpse set up to frighten people The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him The cowardly duelers. In the war between the wild and the domestic animals, the cat raises her tail; the wild animals think that it is a gun and flee Hiding from the strange animal. A cat shrieks and the frightened bear falls out of the tree and hurts himself Wolf-captor scared by fiddle-playing of captive ram, who escapes Parson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in it Tiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and rope Wife, to drive away parasite priest, tells him husband has gone to get drunk and will kill him with rice mortar on his return. He leaves in haste Ogre frightened at rustling. Man sets juniper afire Wooden image frightens away invaders

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Marital experiences of the devil. (Cf. H1153, K216.1, K2325, T251.1.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Devil and the Evil Woman (previously The Evil Woman Thrown into the Pit) · ATU 1164 1 recorded variant

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