Man who killed mother uses her corpse to get presents — Mythoi

Motif

Man who killed mother uses her corpse to get presents.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by frightening. · view the constellation · filed as K2321.1

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 161.

Within the index

Filed under Corpse set up to frighten people.

Filed beside it

Dummy set up as corpse to frighten people

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Urine diagnosis to tell where a man comes from. A farmer takes some of his master's urine for examination. The doctor asks where the man comes from. "You will soon see," says the man, expecting the analysis to tell. (Cf. K2321.1.)

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