μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. Seized.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K721

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Espinosa III 225, 258
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 61
  • general *Graf FFC XXXVIII 26ff.
  • general BP II 207
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 52 (ET 122), 98 (ST 124)
  • general **Dargan MPh IV 39
  • general *Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale
Within the index

Filed under Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness.

1 finer motif beneath it
Dupe persuaded to close eyes and open mouth; then hot stones are thrown down throat
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 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 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

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