Mutual agreement to sacrifice family members in famine. Trickster refuses to carry out his part of the bargain — Mythoi

Motif

Mutual agreement to sacrifice family members in famine. Trickster refuses to carry out his part of the bargain.

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Deception in payment of debt. · Other deceptions in the payment of debt. · view the constellation · filed as K231.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Louisiana Creole Fortier MAFLS II 109
India *Thompson-Balys
Africa Meinhof 200, (Ekoi): Talbot 337, (Nigeria): Tremaine FL XXI 492, (Vandau): Curtis Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent (New York, 1920) 44
American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 230ff. Nos. 39, 40, 41
Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 241 No. 14
Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 109 n. 2
West Indies Flowers 499ff.

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Filed under Refusal to perform part in mutual agreement.

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Mutual agreement to divide food. Trickster eats other's food and then refuses to divide his own The dog refuses to help the wolf. A farmer plans to kill a faithful old dog. The wolf makes a plan to save the dog. The latter is to rescue the farmer's child from the wolf. The plan succeeds and the dog is rewarded. The wolf in return wants to steal the farmer's sheep. The dog refuses his assistance

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