μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • Louisiana Creole Fortier MAFLS II 110
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra (tr. Ryder) III 15, 361
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 853
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 31
  • Africa (Zanzibar) Bateman 41
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Friends 142 No. 19
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23
  • West Indies Flowers 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

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