μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Trickster rides dupe a-courting. Feigns sickness and persuades dupe to carry him. Thus wins the girl.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1241.1

Cited in the index
  • general Type 72
  • general Africa (Nupe): Frobenius Atlantis IX 115 No. 3, (Yoruba): Frobenius ibid. X 280ff. No. 40, (Nyanja): Possett Fables of the Veld (London, 1929) 111ff., (Mbundu): Chatelain MAFLS I 203 No. 28, (Xosa): Waters Cameos from the Kraal (Lovedale, n. d.) 24f.
Within the index

Filed under Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse.

Carried in tale types

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