μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
  • SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 163–67
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 20
  • West IndiesFlowers 522f.
Within the index

Filed under Deception into allowing oneself to be fettered.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Animal allows himself to be tied so as to avoid being carried off by stormAnimal allows himself to be tied to another for safety. Carried to his death. (Cf. J2132.6.)Animal persuaded to be tied by promise of foodAnimal persuaded to be tied through curiosity to learn secret namesOgre allows self to be tied so as to learn magicAnimal allows self to be tied so as to learn musicFaithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill himWomen bind warrior's hair to wall of hostel while he sleeps
Filed beside it
Deception into putting on a collarHare persuades wolf and fox to put their heads in loops on rope and thus strangles them to death
Carried in tale types

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