C075. Baer (p. 90). Aunt Tempy's Story

This is Chase075.

Types 1004I Pigs' tails
0072A Dupe digs till he dies of exhaustion
Motifs
K0404.1 pigs tails
K1061 Dupe digs till he dies of exhaustion
K0231.1. mutual agreement to sacrifice family members in famine

Notes
See notes to Chase074 and Chase073.

Although Type72 fitsone type of the tale, Baer notes that "it actually refers to quite another story which Thompson summarizes briefly under K1061"

Baer concludes: "For the first part of Nights 39 and 41, and for all of Nights 40, the evidence points to an African source. For th e"tails in the ground" portion of 39 and 41, the immediate source coul be either Europe or Africa although, it it is Europe, that leaves the problem of transmission still unresolved."