Ram promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Ram promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.)

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by false plea. · view the constellation · filed as K553.3

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 122E*.

Within the index

Filed under "Wait till I get fat." Captured person (animal) persuades his captor to wait and fatten him before eating him.

Filed beside it

"Wait till I am fat enough to race you." Hero to be eaten by cannibals when he is fattened enough to beat them in a race. He runs away Calf: "Wait till I grow up." "Let me catch you better game." Captured animal pretends to help captor bring more desirable victim. Escapes Wait for the fat goat. Troll lets the first two goats pass on the bridge so that he may eat the biggest one. He is thrown in the water Wolf is requested by horse to start eating from the rear; kicked to death "Soak me in the pond so that I will be juicy." Too dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Wolf acts as judge before eating the rams. They are to go to the end of the field and run to him. They run at him and kill him

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