Victim trapped

Motif

Victim trapped.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim trapped. · view the constellation · filed as K730

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 47.

Within the index

14 finer motifs beneath it

Animal trapped through curiosity as to what the trap is Frog causes deer to dance into snare Leopard traps lion by having two doors to cave, one large, one small. Lion enters large entrance and leopard leaves by small and attacks back of lion Tortoise leads elephant down wrong trail into trap Birds led into trap by promise of a feast Wildboar captured in church Intruder captured in chimney. Burned Capture in pitfall. (Cf. B361.)Snapping door. Traps victims Capture by closing entrance to victim's home Capture by tarbaby. An image covered with tar (or other adhesive substance) captures the intruder who addresses it and finally strikes it so that he sticks to it Capture between branches of tree. Small animal lures large one, who cannot get loose Victim captured in a noose Victim burned in building

Carried in tale types

Rhampsinitus · ATU 9501 recorded variant

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