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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JavaDixon 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

The Wasp Nest as King's Drum · ATU 49A1 recorded variant

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