The singing wolf. By his singing the wolf compels the old man to surrender his cattle, his children and grandchildren, and finally his wife. The old woman goes in the wolf's service. She returns home bringing butter, etc

Motif

The singing wolf. By his singing the wolf compels the old man to surrender his cattle, his children and grandchildren, and finally his wife. The old woman goes in the wolf's service. She returns home bringing butter, etc.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Chains involving a single scene or event without interdependence among the individual actors. · view the constellation · filed as Z33.4.2

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 162*
Russian Andrejev No. 162*.

Within the index

Filed under The fat troll (wolf). A troll eats the watcher's five horses and finally the watcher himself. The master goes to investigate. The troll: "I ate the five horses, I ate the watcher, and I will eat you." Does so. Likewise the wife, servant, daughter, son, and dog. The cat scratches the troll open and rescues all.

Filed beside it

Louse and crow make covenant of friendship: louse eats crow despite crow saying, "If I strike you once with my beak you will disappear; how then can you talk of eating me?" Likewise louse eats loaf of bread, she-goat, cow, buffalo, five sepoys, wedding procession with one lakh of people, elephant, tank of water. A sepoy cuts louse in two with his sword and rescues all

Carried in tale types

The Singing Wolf · ATU 163 1 recorded variant

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