μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Escape by shammed hanging.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K522.8

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Escape by shamming death.

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

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