Animal gets bait from trap by luring another animal into it

Motif

Animal gets bait from trap by luring another animal into it.

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deceptions into self injury – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1115.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 35*
PrussianPlenzat 6
RussianAndrejev No. 30*
Africa (Hausa)Mischlich Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (Berlin, 1911) 111f. No. 1.

Within the index

Filed under The oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caught.

Carried in tale types

The Fox Gets Bait from Trap by Luring Wolf into It · ATU 35B*1 recorded variant

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