Escape by singing an endless song. The soldier's bargain with Death

Motif

Escape by singing an endless song. The soldier's bargain with Death.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by false plea. · view the constellation · filed as K555.2.2

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 1084A*
RussianAndrejev No. 1084 I*
RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1615*.

Within the index

Filed under Respite from death gained by long-drawn-out song.

Filed beside it

Formula-tale (Ehod) saves girl from devil. Unsuccessful imitation. (Cf. Z20.)

Carried in tale types

Prayer Without End (previously The Lord's Prayer) · ATU 11991 recorded variant

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