Reading Notes B - week 15

Reading Notes B

This story is about tricks.The man tricks his mean wife into going into the pit.
Then once the demon comes out of the pit, he begins ticking the people that his is saving them from the demon, when in reality the demon and him have teamed up so he can earn money
Then he tricks the demon into going back into the pit to be with the bad wife.

He earns a daughter's hand in marriage for making the demon disappear, even though he was the one who brought him into the world.

Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).

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