Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up — Mythoi

Motif

Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K722

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière, India: *Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Types 545AB
general BP I 325ff., III 487

Within the index

Filed under Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness.

1 finer motif beneath it

Dragon enticed into pot while in its child-form, boiled, so it can see "courage"

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 Cock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. Seized 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

Puss in Boots · ATU 545B 6 recorded variants

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