Dog sent ahead so as to avoid seeing husband transformed. (Cf. S241.1.)

Motif

Dog sent ahead so as to avoid seeing husband transformed. (Cf. S241.1.)

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Miscellaneous deceptions. · view the constellation · filed as K2371.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

ChineseGraham.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Heaven entered by a trick Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate 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."

Travels with

Unwitting bargain with devil evaded by driving dog over bridge first. The child has been unwittingly promised (the first thing that goes over the bridge)

wander