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Motif

Deception into entering bag.

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

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“The birds assented and returned to the shore, when all retreated a short distance away from the lake to an open space where they might dance. Manabozho removed the bundle of bark froni his back and placed it on the ground, got out his singing-sticks, and said to the birds, “Now, all of you dance around me asI drum; sing as loudly as you can, and keep your eyes closed. The first one to open his eyes will forever have them red and sore.””

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 24 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 163–167
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • West IndiesFlowers 522.
Within the index

Filed under Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Birds enticed into bagDeception into magic bag which closes on prisonerLeopard persuaded to enter bag in order to see trickster perform marvelOgre frightened into rolling self in mat: burnedWitch tells boy to pass down some of fruit from tree, catches hold of him and puts him in her sack when he bends down
Filed beside it
Deception into allowing oneself to be fetteredDeception into entering box (or prison)Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executionerDeception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottleCock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. SeizedGiant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him upDupe induced to waste his bullets, then seizedDupe lured away from protection of friends: capturedDupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.)Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic private parts – humanMagic excrementsMagic object gives adviceBodily members as advisers. (Cf. D990.)Magic object points out roadBlinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.)Magic swallow-skin warns of danger. (Cf. D1025.4.)Speaking plant. (Cf. D965, F815.)Talking private parts betray unchastityPicture mistaken for originalCreaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of himRaven steals the robes of Red Willow Men and finds them useless

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