Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game

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

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Murderer or captor beguiled – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

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