Unresponsive corpse. Corpse is set up so that dupe addresses it and when it does not respond knocks it over. He is accused of murder. Most references to K2151 apply to this motif as well — Mythoi

Motif

Unresponsive corpse. Corpse is set up so that dupe addresses it and when it does not respond knocks it over. He is accused of murder. Most references to K2151 apply to this motif as well.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Innocent made to appear guilty. · view the constellation · filed as K2152

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 36 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa III Nos. 176, 189
Italian Novella Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys
Korean Zong in-Sob 197 No. 96
N. Am. Indian (Micmac) Rand No. 57, (Zuñi): Cushing 255, (Ojibwa): Schoolcraft Hiawatha 246.
general *Cox 501
general Christiansen Norske Eventyr No. 1536
general *Clouston Tales II 242

Within the index

Filed under Innocent made to appear guilty.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dead dog set up so that woman knocks it over. Must pay damages Legs of a corpse cause accusation of murder

Filed beside it

The corpse handed around. (The thrice-killed corpse.) Dupes are accused of murder when the corpse is left with them. The trickster is paid to keep silent Trickster wounds self and accuses others Evidence of crime left so that dupe is blamed Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence Sham blind man throws suspicion on real blind. He admits his deception so that his companion, who is really blind, is punished The dog receives the blows. The cat steals a sausage from the table but the dog receives the blows from the mistress Rats cause cats to be killed. The rats unite and all go to houses together, increasing or decreasing their ravages with the increase or decrease in the number of cats. Thus the cats are suspected of the damage and are killed Grandmother causes grandchildren to be whipped: puts dirt and hairs into cooking pot by stealth and sand in the water they draw [First Edition: K2190. Other false accusations.]

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Jumping contest won by deception

Carried in tale types

The Corpse Killed Five Times · ATU 1537 1 recorded variant

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