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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

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

Rabbit Rides Fox A-courting · ATU 721 recorded variant

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