ATU 2025. The Fleeing Pancake

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Z33.1 [ATU 2025] The fleeing pancake. A woman makes a pancake, which flees. Various animals try in vain to stop it. Finally the fox eats it up.

ATU 2025. A pancake (pudding, cake, cookie, cabbage strudel, round bread) jumps out of the pan (plate) and runs away from the cook (mother) who wants to eat it. The pancake runs outside and meets a series of animals (hen, rooster, duck, goose, fox, pig) or people who also want to eat it. The pancake runs away from all of them, bargging about all the others it has already escaped from. The fox (pig) induces the pancake to come close by pretending to be deaf, and gobbles it up.
The pig drops part of the pancake, so now all pigs root around in the mud looking for it.

additional information:

Wikipedia: The Gingerbread Man

Baughman 2025.
ABERDEEN: Gregor and Moir FL Journal 2:71 1894. [online at Hathi]
BORDER: Petrie Borders 140, 1950
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kittredge JAF 3:291-92, 1890 [online at Hathi]
MASSACHUSETTS: Whiting JAF 2:217-218, 1889 [online at Hathi]
TEXAS Dobie PTFS 6:30-33, 1927

Darnhardt Zeitschrift des Vereins fur Volkskunde XVII (1907) 133-41 No. 2, Vom fliehenden Pfannkuchen and, in better form, Natursagen III 272-284

Zuidema Zeitschrift des Vereins fur Volkskunde XVIII (1908) 195

Dan: MS DFS, Kristensen Danske Dyrefable 58f. Nos. 113-118

Fb "pandekage" II 782b

Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 149

Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2025

Russian Andrejev No. 295, 296 - The Bun - Afanasyev
Gingerbread Boy - Clarkson and Cross - World
Wee Bannock - Jacobs

ASHLIMAN: The Runaway Pancake 2025
The Pancake (Norway).
The Runaway Pancake (Germany).
The Thick, Fat Pancake (Germany).
Dathera Dad (England).
The Wonderful Cake (Ireland).
The Wee Bunnock (Scotland [Ayrshire]).
The Wee Bannock (Scotland [Dumfriesshire]).
The Wee Bannock (Scotland [Selkirkshire]).
The Fox and the Little Bonnach (Scotland).
The Gingerbread Boy (USA).
The Johnny-Cake (USA).
The Little Cakeen (USA).