Crocodile in ambush betrays self by talking.
Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Murderer or captor otherwise beguiled. · view the constellation · filed as K607.2.1
Motif
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Crocodile masking as a log obeys suggestion that he move upstream. He thus betrays himself.
Carried in tale types
- Sham-Dead (Hidden) Animal Betrays Self · ATU 66B1 recorded variant