Mock sunrise causes supernaturals (thieves) to drop burdens and flee. (Cf. F420.3.4.2.)

Motif

Mock sunrise causes supernaturals (thieves) to drop burdens and flee. (Cf. F420.3.4.2.)

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Illusions. · view the constellation · filed as K1886.3.3

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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.

TahitiHenry 589
TongaGifford 88ff.

Within the index

Filed under Mock sunrise. Contract is to be fulfilled at dawn. Wolf makes fire as mock sunrise. Is caught.

Filed beside it

Mock sunrise: person causes cock to crow (simulates cock crow)Mock sunrise: dupe made to believe that flaunted bare buttocks are the rising sun

Travels with

Water-spirits must be in water before dawn; delay is punished with death. (Cf. F451.3.2.1. and cross-references there given.)

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