The Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil

The Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil is a Mexican fairy tale collected by Vicente T. Medoza and Virginia Rodriguez Rivera de Mendoza in Piedra Gorda.[1]

It is Aarne–Thompson type 1096, The tailor and the ogre in a sewing contest.[1]

Synopsis

The Devil offers a tailor a bargain; the tailor says he can have his soul if he beats him in a sewing contest. The Devil uses a long thread, which tangles; the tailors uses a short one and wins.

Expression

The story concludes with the observation that this is why mothers warn their daughters against long threads by calling them "the Devil's thread."[2]

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gollark: That COULD be somewhat inefficient.
gollark: I assume the intention here was something like```pythondef mainloop(input): observe_object() if object_on_left(): return go_left() elif object_on_right() return go_right()```
gollark: Each "tick", though, do the new actions replace the old ones or what?
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References
  1. Americo Paredes, Folktales of Mexico, p223 ISBN 0-226-64571-1
  2. Americo Paredes, Folktales of Mexico, p148 ISBN 0-226-64571-1
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