Variant 3 Pedro the Blacksmith

This is seemingly a variation upon The Three Wishes. It follows a much more condensed version of the Three Wishes plot line with both the Devil interactions and the god interaction becoming reduced to short synopsis of those events. Structurally, though, the plots share many similarities since the plot line—gain three wishes, then make a deal with the devil, then use the three wishes to trap the devil, then eventually die unrelated to the events of the gods or devils and have no place in the afterlife—is a commonality between the two stories. Some major differences are the use of several devils at one point and a colorful mixing of the wishes from both Gambling Hansel and The Three Wishes since two of the wishes seem very similar to those in The Three Wishes with the bag and the chair that can only be used normally by the owner, while the fig tree that can’t be climbed down from seems very similar to the tree in Gambling Hansel. In this way, this tale seems like a variation of The Three Wishes and by extension a more indirect variation of Gambling Hansel. The main deviation is the ending of the story where Pedro is able to actually get into heaven and stay there for forever through more cunning where in the other variations of this tale the character is given an afterlife full of suffering for the characters use of their cunning. This still involves the afterlife and some manipulation of it which is a common plot point in the other variations of this story, but is a noteworthy deviation. Pino Saavedra, Y., & Internet Archive. (1967). Folktales of Chile. In Internet Archive. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press. https://archive.org/details/folktalesofchile00pino/page/54/mode/1up