Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee

Motif

Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by overawing captor. · view the constellation · filed as K548.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 574.

Within the index

Filed under Escape by making attacker believe there are many defenders. (Cf. K2368.)

Filed beside it

Woman alone in house rolls cheeses down the stairs after calling names of men in the house. Attackers think the men of the house are rushing down the stairs Sham calling to helpers frightens robbers away

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