Deception into entering box (or prison).
Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K714
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Filed under Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness.
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Victim tricked into prison and kept thereVictim 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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Deception into entering bagDeception into allowing oneself to be fetteredDeception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executionerDeception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottleCock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. SeizedGiant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him upDupe induced to waste his bullets, then seizedDupe lured away from protection of friends: capturedDupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.)Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed