μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa III 225, 258
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • 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 bagDeception into allowing oneself to be fetteredDeception 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 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 bottleGiant 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
Carried in tale types

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