Corpse set up to frighten people — Mythoi

Motif

Corpse set up to frighten people.

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 1536
general *Taylor MPh XV 225 n. 1
general Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 73, 360

Within the index

Filed under Deception by frightening.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Man who killed mother uses her corpse to get presents Dummy set up as corpse to frighten people

Filed beside it

The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him The cowardly duelers. In the war between the wild and the domestic animals, the cat raises her tail; the wild animals think that it is a gun and flee Hiding from the strange animal. A cat shrieks and the frightened bear falls out of the tree and hurts himself Devil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-law Wolf-captor scared by fiddle-playing of captive ram, who escapes Parson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in it Tiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and rope Wife, to drive away parasite priest, tells him husband has gone to get drunk and will kill him with rice mortar on his return. He leaves in haste Ogre frightened at rustling. Man sets juniper afire Wooden image frightens away invaders

Carried in tale types

The Woman in the Chest · ATU 1536A 1 recorded variant

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