μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Trickster throws fish off the wagon. The fox plays dead; a man throws him on the wagon of fish. The fox throws the fish off and carries them away.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Other means of theft. · view the constellation · filed as K371.1

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • Louisiana CreoleFortier MAFLS II 115
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 438
  • Africa (Hottentot)Bleek 16 No. 8
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 17 No. 4, 306 No. 52, (South Carolina): Parsons MAFLS XVI 39, Stewart JAFL XXXII 395, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 276
  • BahamaParsons MAFLS XIII 10.
  • general *Type 1
  • general BP II 116
  • general Dh IV 225, 304
  • general Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 46ff. Lappish: Qvigstad Lappiske Eventyr II 3, III 3
Within the index

Filed under Trickster hides in food and eats it.

Carried in tale types

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