Hero hides in treasure box and thus circumvents plot to leave him below when companions pull up box

Motif

Hero hides in treasure box and thus circumvents plot to leave him below when companions pull up box.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Other means of escape. · view the constellation · filed as K677.1

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Filed under Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope.

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