Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself

Motif

Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Dupe tricked into killing himself. · view the constellation · filed as K891.1

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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.

general *Type 333
general *BP I 40. Cf. Type 124.

Within the index

Filed under Dupe tricked into jumping to his death.

Filed beside it

Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself Monkey tricked into jumping in water and drowning self. Jackal hides in reeds which screen water Dupe tricked into jumping on supposed funeral pyre of beloved Dupe induced to jump over precipice

Carried in tale types

Blowing the House In [Z81] · ATU 1241 recorded variant

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