Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes

Motif

Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K525.1

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Scholars’ trail — 17references

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.

U.S.Baughman
IcelandicFSS 38, Boberg
CheremisSebeok-Nyerges (K437.1.1.)
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 22
SpanishBoggs FFC XC 116 No. 970
ItalianBasile Pentamerone III No. 4, Rotunda
India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 207
ChineseGraham
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 444
TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3115)
Tahitiibid. 63
Africa (Kaffir)Theal 125, (Ekoi): Talbot 249
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 3 No. 1.
general *Type 1115
general *BP I 148ff., 164
general Australia: Dixon 279

Within the index

Filed under Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Woman puts figures of paramour and herself in bed. Husband attacks them. Woman uses it as a lesson to "reform" husband Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom In order to save child from death, maid substitutes block dressed to resemble it. Enemy strikes block

Filed beside it

Man steps aside so that only his shadow is caught Object substituted for murdered person so as to allay suspicion Animal jumps out of skin so that only skin is caught Man leaves mantle so that only mantle is hit Escape, leaving dog as substitute Girl escapes from ogress by substituting pig Destructive magic object tried out on something inanimate Cock's blood given spirits instead of human blood Escape by leaving behind false images made of spittle

Travels with

Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Brave Tailor · ATU 16402 recorded variants
The Basil Maiden · ATU 8792 recorded variants
Attempted Murder with a Hatchet · ATU 11151 recorded variant
The Punished Seducer · ATU 883B1 recorded variant

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