[1][2][3] The fable is classed as Aarne-Thompson type 313 (A girl helps the hero to flee)[4] and revolves about a transformation chase.
The motifs contain notable similarities to the legend of Jason and Medea, in the tasks assigned to the hero, and in the help from a woman connected with the villain.
[5] Jean was coming back from his enlistment and knocked on a door because he was tired; Eulalie answered, and not even her protest that her father devoured people dissuaded him from entering.
Eulalie, on his promise to marry her and carry her away, agreed to get the hot irons cleaned, which she accomplished using her magic wand.
This was repeated until the pies finally failed to answer, and the Devil's wife insisted the two youngsters were not fast asleep.
When the Devil interrogated, Jean talked on and on about peddling seeds, like a man hard of hearing.
The Devil gave chase for the third time, and Eulalie transformed herself into a church building and Jean into a priest.
But she used her wand to scatter the cinders he collected into a pile, and continued this until morning, so that by the time he left he had burnt fingers.
Then she used the wand to make them flap open each time he closed, repeatedly until morning, so that he left cold and soaking wet.