Victim tricked into prison and kept there — Mythoi

Motif

Victim tricked into prison and kept there.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K714.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Africa (Thonga) Junod 216.
general *Wesselski Arlotto I 209 No. 50

Within the index

Filed under Deception into entering box (or prison).

1 finer motif beneath it

Trickster persuades policeman to take his place in the stocks. Then tricks policeman's wife into giving him jewels

Filed beside it

Victim tricked into entering box Dupe tricked into entering hollow tree Victim tricked into entering basket Woman persuaded to hide head in jug: she is caught Animal lured into lion's den Victim lured into following deer sent by demon to cave. Dies of suffocation Fish enticed into trap (promised new skins) Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare

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