Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Murderer or captor otherwise beguiled. · view the constellation · filed as K619.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Murderer or captor beguiled – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Cannibals advised to be absent while hero is being cooked; else he will not taste right. Hero escapes Pursuer persuaded to put oil on a tree when he wants to climb after fugitives

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