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

Motif

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

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · Lie: hunter's unusual experiences. · view the constellation · filed as X1133.3

Cited in the index

general *Type 1875
general Köhler-Bolte I 410
general *Fb "tønde" III 935a, "ræv" III 114a.

Within the index

Filed under Lie: the hunter in danger.

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Lie: man uses remarkable means of getting out of tree stump Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December) Man escapes from bee's nest on bear's tail Tigers stand on each other's heads trying to reach man in tree. His tears form a stream

Carried in tale types

The Boy on the Bear's (Wolf's) Tail · ATU 1875 1 recorded variant

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