Dupe induced to strike at bee's nest: badly bitten — Mythoi

Motif

Dupe induced to strike at bee's nest: badly bitten.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1023.5

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

The Wasp Nest as King's Drum · ATU 49A 1 recorded variant

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