μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dupe allowed to guard "king's drum": it is a wasp nest.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1023.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Java Dixon 188 n. 5
  • general cf. DeVries's list No. 12.
Within the index

Filed under Getting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stung.

1 finer motif beneath it
Dupe allowed to guard "king's girdle": it is a snake, which bites him
Filed beside it
Dupe persuaded to pick up biting ants Dupe persuaded to sit on ant hole. Hindquarters eaten Animal made to believe sound of swarming bees is that of her children singing in school. Rushes to water to relieve stings and is drowned Dupe induced to strike at bee's nest: badly bitten
Carried in tale types

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