Captive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escape — Mythoi

Motif

Captive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escape.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K522.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Escape by shamming death.

1 finer motif beneath it

Trout pretends to be dead. Fisherman ignores him

Filed beside it

Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.) Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out) Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already." Death feigned to escape from husband's death plot Escape by shammed burial Escape by shammed drowning; wrecked boat or coffin lands Sham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered him Escape by shammed hanging

Carried in tale types

The Birds Escape by Shamming Death · ATU 233A 1 recorded variant

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