μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1637*
  • Chinese Graham
  • Indonesia Coster-Wijsman 38 No. 26
  • N. Am. Indian (Menomini) Skinner JAFL XXVI 75
  • Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 44ff.
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 51 No. 10, 83 No. 16, Remus 135 No. 28, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 274.
  • general Type 49
  • general Mexican: Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419ff.
Within the index

Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

5 finer motifs beneath 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 Dupe induced to strike at bee's nest: badly bitten
Filed beside it
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 Dupe persuaded to steal food: cannot escape Beginning with the smallest. Animals are to eat one another up to avoid starvation. The fox persuades them to start with the smallest Eating his own entrails. The fox persuades the wolf to do so Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught Dupe made to sit on hot stone Hot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throat Dupe persuaded to climb rope for food: rope breaks Stone (hard fruit) thrown into greedy dupe's mouth Trickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures him Dupe injures self on fence of thorns surrounding food-plants
Carried in tale types

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