Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught — Mythoi

Motif

Dupe imitates trickster's thefts and is caught.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1026

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Ikeda
general *Types 1 (and notes to K371.1.), 66**
general Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 274.

Within the index

Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

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

The Theft of Fish · ATU 1 2 recorded variants

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