μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 21
  • general Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 85
Within the index

Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

2 finer motifs beneath it
The fox suggests eating his own brains. The wolf, wanting to get brains, strikes his head against a treeTiger persuaded to eat own eyes
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 tailDupe persuaded to steal food: cannot escapeGetting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stungBeginning with the smallest. Animals are to eat one another up to avoid starvation. The fox persuades them to start with the smallestDupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caughtDupe made to sit on hot stoneHot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throatDupe persuaded to climb rope for food: rope breaksStone (hard fruit) thrown into greedy dupe's mouthTrickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures himDupe injures self on fence of thorns surrounding food-plants
Carried in tale types

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