Deception into allowing oneself to be tied — Mythoi

Motif

Deception into allowing oneself to be tied.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K713.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Spanish Espinosa III Nos. 163–67
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham
Indonesia DeVries's list No. 20
West Indies Flowers 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 storm Animal allows himself to be tied to another for safety. Carried to his death. (Cf. J2132.6.) Animal persuaded to be tied by promise of food Animal persuaded to be tied through curiosity to learn secret names Ogre allows self to be tied so as to learn magic Animal allows self to be tied so as to learn music Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him Women bind warrior's hair to wall of hostel while he sleeps

Filed beside it

Deception into putting on a collar Hare persuades wolf and fox to put their heads in loops on rope and thus strangles them to death

Carried in tale types

The Revenge of the Cheated Man (previously The Youth Cheated in Selling Oxen) · ATU 1538 1 recorded variant

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