Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other — Mythoi

Motif

Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Other means of escape. · view the constellation · filed as K651

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 184 (The Fox and the Wolf)
Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella *Rotunda
American Negro (Georgia) Harris Remus 75 No. 16, (Pennsylvania): Parsons JAFL XXX 214, (South Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXXIV 16, Stewart JAFL XXXII 394.
general *Type 32
general BP IV 320
general Chauvin III 78 No. 57
general Fb "ræv" III 113b
general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 43

Within the index

Filed under Other means of escape.

Filed beside it

Fox climbs from pit on wolf's back Prisoner kills his watchers who enter to torture him. Escapes Captors lured into drowning selves Exaggerated tales about escapes Escape from suspicion of crime Captive throws his hat to lions who fight over it while he escapes Captive throws his shoe at serpent who chokes while he escapes Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) Trickster persuades pursuers to ride in his basket. Leaves basket on limb of tree and escapes Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope Cutting rope to kill ogre who is climbing the rope to reach his victim Small animal in mouth of larger causes captor to spit him out. (Defecates.) Escape by catching hold of limbs of tree while passing under it Escape by announcing great catastrophe (end of world or the like) Birds escape death by flying away with net

Carried in tale types

The Wolf Descends into the Well in one Bucket and Rescues the Fox in the Other · ATU 32 1 recorded variant

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