Types
ATU0122 The Wolf Loses his prey
ATU022F wait till I am fat enough
Motifs
K0567 escape by pretending to perform errand (do work) for captor
K0553 wait till I am fat enough
Notes
See Chase001 for discussion of ATU122.
Baer notes: "The motif for Tildy's story is African, but with Uncle Remus's the tale type is in both the oral and literary tradition." ... but not from books (pace Vance).. Baer notes that Harris collected oral stories, "from former plantation Negroes, who probably spent little time reading classical literature."
The "wait till I get fat" is found in West Indies also. Baer concludes: "The variant probably should be considered an Indo/African/Afro-American tale."
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