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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 199–201, 204
India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesiaDeVries'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
JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII *241 No. 14, 233f.
West IndiesFlowers 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

Torn-off Tails (previously The Buried Tail) · ATU 2A2 recorded variants

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