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

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by false plea. · view the constellation · filed as K579.5.1

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.

SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 30, 31.
general *Wesselski Märchen 251 No. 58

Within the index

Filed under Respite while captor acts as umpire between captives.

Filed beside it

Tiger to help foxes divide their young. Foxes escape into hole

Travels with

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.)

Carried in tale types

The Wolf as Judge (previously Wolf Acts as Judge before Eating the Rams) · ATU 122K*1 recorded variant

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