Deception 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 bottle — Mythoi

Motif

Deception 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 bottle.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K717

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham
Africa (Gold Coast) Barker and Sinclair 29 No. 1 (bees).
general *Type 331
general *BP II 414ff. (spirit)

Within the index

Filed under Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness.

Filed beside it

Deception into entering bag Deception into allowing oneself to be fettered Deception into entering box (or prison) Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner Cock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. Seized Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up Dupe induced to waste his bullets, then seized Dupe lured away from protection of friends: captured Dupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.) Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed

Carried in tale types

The Spirit in the Bottle · ATU 331 2 recorded variants

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