The cave call. ("Hello, house!") An animal suspecting the presence of an enemy in his cave (house), calls and receives no answer. He then says, "Don't you know, O cave, that we have agreed that I must call you when I come from abroad and that you in turn must answer me?" The hiding animal answers and the other flees

Motif

The cave call. ("Hello, house!") An animal suspecting the presence of an enemy in his cave (house), calls and receives no answer. He then says, "Don't you know, O cave, that we have agreed that I must call you when I come from abroad and that you in turn must answer me?" The hiding animal answers and the other flees.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Murderer or captor otherwise beguiled. · view the constellation · filed as K607.1

Scholars’ trail — 11references

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 110
India*Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra (tr. Ryder) III 15, 361
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 853
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 31
Africa (Zanzibar)Bateman 41
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Friends 142 No. 19
JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23
West IndiesFlowers 517.
general **M. Bloomfield JAOS XXXVI 58
general Mexican Spanish: Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419ff.
general N. Am. Indian (Oaxaca, Mexico): Boas JAFL XXV 208

Within the index

Filed under Enemy in ambush (or disguise) deceived into declaring himself.

Filed beside it

Crocodile masking as a log obeys suggestion that he move upstream. He thus betrays himself Sham-dead man deceived into making gesture. Obeys suggestion as to how dead man should act and betrays himself

Carried in tale types

'Hello, House!' An animal (crocodile) wants to catch a weaker animal (jackal, monkey) and hides in wait in its den · ATU 66A1 recorded variant

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