Trickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures him — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures him.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food. · view the constellation · filed as K1036

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Graham.

Within the index

Filed under Deception into disastrous attempt to procure food.

1 finer motif beneath it

Dupe told he can get meat by putting hand up animal's anus: animal drags him. (Cf. K952.1, K1022.1.1.)

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 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 Dupe injures self on fence of thorns surrounding food-plants

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