Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate

Motif

Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Miscellaneous deceptions. · view the constellation · filed as K2371.2

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Penzer VI 92 n. 2, IX 25 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Deceiving the higher powers (God, the saints, the gods, fate).

Filed beside it

Heaven entered by a trick Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels."Dog sent ahead so as to avoid seeing husband transformed. (Cf. S241.1.)

Carried in tale types

Outwitting Fate · ATU 934D1 recorded variant

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