μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ogre frightened at rustling. Man sets juniper afire.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Deception by frightening. · view the constellation · filed as K2345

Filed across the traditions
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general Type 1145
Within the index

Filed under Deception by frightening.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Tiger frightened at sound of clashing knives: thinks it is leak in house of which he is afraid Bear frightened by wife's sneezing
Filed beside it
Corpse set up to frighten people 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 Wooden image frightens away invaders
Carried in tale types

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