The constellation
K1867 Trickster shams death to get food
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- Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions · K1983 entry
- Thief frightens owner from goods · K335 entry
- Escape by false plea. A captive makes a request or proposes an action that permits him eventually to escape · K550 entry
- Animal "punished" by being placed in favorite environment · K581 entry
- Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue) · K825 entry
- Deceptive scratching contest · K83 entry
- Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird · K932 entry
- Rape · T471 entry
- Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees · A2731.1 entry
- Magic garment (robe, tunic) · D1052 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38