Fish enticed into trap (promised new skins)

Motif

Fish enticed into trap (promised new skins).

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K714.8

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 3/1951).

Within the index

Filed under Deception into entering box (or prison).

Filed beside it

Victim tricked into prison and kept there 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 Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare

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