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Motif

Tail buried (hair tied). Dupe bound fast and then attacked.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1021.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Espinosa III Nos. 199–201, 204
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia DeVries's list Nos. 35, 88
  • Africa (Zulu) Callaway 6, 358, (Kaffir): Theal 110, 183, (Basuto): Jacottet 20 No. 2, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 385f., (Hottentot): Bleek I No. 1, (Thonga): Junod 217
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 339 No. 59
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII *241 No. 14, 233f.
  • West Indies Flowers 533.
  • general N. Am. Indian (Hupa): Goddard U Cal I 154ff., Kroeber JAFL XXI 224
Within the index

Filed under The tail fisher. The bear is persuaded to fish with his tail through a hole in the ice. When he is attacked and tries to escape, he loses his tail.

1 finer motif beneath it
Hair tied to basket so that dupe kills self when she throws basket down
Filed beside it
Basket tied to wolf's tail and filled with stones. Wolf is persuaded that it is filled with fish Bear persuaded to slide down rock. Wears off tail
Carried in tale types

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