μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general Type 1145
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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 afraidBear frightened by wife's sneezing
Filed beside it
Corpse set up to frighten peopleThe 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 himThe 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 fleeHiding from the strange animal. A cat shrieks and the frightened bear falls out of the tree and hurts himselfDevil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-lawWolf-captor scared by fiddle-playing of captive ram, who escapesParson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in itTiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and ropeWife, 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 hasteWooden image frightens away invaders
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