Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned

Motif

Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K711.3

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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.

general Africa (Nubian): Rochemonteix Quelques Contes Nubiens (Cairo, 1888) 55ff. No. 5, (Swahili): Steere 13ff.

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Filed under Deception into entering bag.

Filed beside it

Birds enticed into bag Deception into magic bag which closes on prisoner Leopard persuaded to enter bag in order to see trickster perform marvel Witch tells boy to pass down some of fruit from tree, catches hold of him and puts him in her sack when he bends down

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