Dupe lured away from protection of friends: captured — Mythoi

Motif

Dupe lured away from protection of friends: captured.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. · view the constellation · filed as K725

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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 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 Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up Dupe induced to waste his bullets, then seized Dupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.) Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed

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