If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!"

Motif

If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!"

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · Lie: hunter's unusual experiences. · view the constellation · filed as X1133.3.2

Filed across the traditions

West Indies Flowers 585.
general Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 216 No. 48

Within the index

Filed under Man in barrel grabs wolf by the tail and is drawn out of danger.

Filed beside it

Animal unwittingly puts tail into man's hands and is caught

Carried in tale types

If the Wolf's Tail Breaks · ATU 1229 1 recorded variant

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