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Motif

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.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis IX 115, (Nigeria): Tramearne 322, (Yoruba): Ellis 265, (Angola): Chatelain 203 No. 28
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Remus 24 No. 6, Jones Negro Tales from the Georgia Coast Nos 7, 13, (Virginia): Bacon and Parsons JAFL XXXV 265 266, Speers JAFL XXV 285f., (North Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXX 173, (South Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXXIV 5, MAFLS XVI 54, (Louisiana): Johnston JAFL IX 195
  • Jamaica *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 235
  • West Indies Van Cappelle Mythen en Sagen van West-Indie Nos. 12, 16.
  • general *Types 4, 72
  • general *BP II 117
  • general Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 59ff.
  • general *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 66
  • general American Negro and American Indian: *Thompson CColl II 440, 447
Within the index

Filed under Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it
Trickster rides dupe a-courting. Feigns sickness and persuades dupe to carry him. Thus wins the girl
Filed beside it
Priest trapped in window and humiliated Holding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.) Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) The general hatches out an egg. The page induces the general to take his place in sitting on the eggs. Then he calls the king to look Person hypnotized into believing himself transformed Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him Man carried and dropped in mid-stream Amorous intrigue observed and exposed Man abed with his wife is frightened away by an intruder who steals his clothes Abbess puts priest's trousers on her head. Suddenly called up while abed with the priest, she thinks to put on her coif. Discomfited by nuns whom she has denounced for incontinence Discovery of abbot's (abbess's) incontinence brings permission to monks (nuns) to do likewise Girl who cannot keep silent thereby provokes her rival to admit unchastity Woman draws a pelt to her instead of her husband. A woman asks of her husband a hair which will magically draw him to her. He gives her a hair from a pelt Rascals pull off judge's breeches and leave him exposed Mock initiation for dupe King induced to kiss horse's rump: trickster then threatens to tell
Carried in tale types

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