μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • 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 boxDupe tricked into entering hollow treeVictim tricked into entering basketWoman persuaded to hide head in jug: she is caughtAnimal lured into lion's denVictim lured into following deer sent by demon to cave. Dies of suffocationFish enticed into trap (promised new skins)Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare

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