Death feigned in order to be carried

Motif

Death feigned in order to be carried.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by feigned death (sleep). · view the constellation · filed as K1861

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian (Klikitat)Jacobs U Wash II 35
general Africa (Bayaka): Johnson Grenfell 823.

Within the index

Filed under Deception by feigned death (sleep).

1 finer motif beneath it

Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird

Filed beside it

Death feigned to meet lover Death feigned to learn how soldiers are resuscitated False tidings of one's own death in order to be able to leave without notice Death feigned to establish reputation of false relic. False resuscitation Death feigned in order to enter land of dead Trickster shams death to get food Deception by pretending sleep

Travels with

Lame man taken on hunt in wheel chair beats the dogs home when they tree a spook or when a bear gets after them. (Cf. K1861.)

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