μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Jackal eating into elephant's dead body becomes a prisoner when it dries up; is released when storm moistens hide.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1022.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 1131.
Within the index

Filed under Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Dupe told he can get meat by putting hand up animal's anus: animal drags him. (Cf. K952.1, K1022.1.1.)
Carried in tale types

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “elephant's” · wander