Victim tricked into entering box

Motif

Victim tricked into entering box.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K714.2

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
IndiaThompson-Balys
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 294, Dixon 197
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Remus 62 No. 13, (Virginia): Bacon and Parsons JAFL XXXV 267, (North Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXX 175, Brown Collection I 704.
general M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII xvii

Within the index

Filed under Deception into entering box (or prison).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Victim tricked into jumping in a box by making him think he is going to heaven. (Cf. K842.)Tiger enticed into coffin

Filed beside it

Victim tricked into prison and kept there 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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