Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.)

Motif

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Deception into fatal substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K842

Filed across the traditions

Russian Andrejev No. 1535B*
French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 23
Missouri French Carrière
Spanish Espinosa III Nos. 163–7, 172–4
Italian Novella *Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
Korean Zong in-Sob 104 No. 56
Indonesia Dixon 191 n. 14, De Vries's list No. 276, Coster-Wijsman 26 No. 5
Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 196, 438, 444
N. Am. Indian *Thompson CColl II 419ff.
Africa Frobenius Atlantis II 220ff., VIII 54f., 61f., 175ff.
American Negro (Georgia) Harris Remus 111 No. 23, 140 No. 29, Nights 177 No. 31, 185, No. 32, (Alabama): Work JAFL XXXII 400
Bahama Parsons MAFLS XIII 82 No. 39, Edwards MAFLS III 63, Finlay JAFL XXXVIII 293
general *Types 1525A, 1535, 1737
general *BP II 10ff., III 188, 192, 393
general *Fb "sæk" III 720b
general *Cosquin Études 392
general *Chauvin V 247 No. 147 n. 1. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1535A*
general New Mexican Spanish Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419ff.
general Antigua, British West Indies: Johnson JAFL XXXIV 54.

Within the index

4 finer motifs beneath it

Filed beside it

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Carried in tale types