The constellation
K1983 Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other impostures · K1980 entry
keeps company
- 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
- Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) · D2006 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38