Deception by pretending sleep

Motif

Deception by pretending sleep.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by feigned death (sleep). · view the constellation · filed as K1868

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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.

Irish mythCross
India*Thompson-Balys
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 382.
general Malone PMLA XLIII 406

Within the index

Filed under Deception by feigned death (sleep).

Filed beside it

Death feigned in order to be carried 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

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