μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • EnglandBaughman
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 3/1323, 1/89)
  • Mono-AluWheeler Nos. 2, 6, 18, 48ff.
  • Africa (Benga)Nassau 86, 191 Nos. 4, 25, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 386 No. 11, (Fang): Trilles 267.
  • general *Type 160
  • general Chauvin II 106 No. 71
Within the index

Filed under Victim trapped.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Mats over holes as pitfallCapture in trap seatKnight captured in pitfall while his horse escapesCapture in trap bed: victim dropped into dungeonDupe tricked into well: left thereTiger enticed into pit by being tempted to leap after boar-leader
Filed beside it
Animal trapped through curiosity as to what the trap isFrog causes deer to dance into snareLeopard 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 lionTortoise leads elephant down wrong trail into trapBirds led into trap by promise of a feastWildboar captured in churchIntruder captured in chimney. BurnedSnapping door. Traps victimsCapture by closing entrance to victim's homeCapture 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 itCapture between branches of tree. Small animal lures large one, who cannot get looseVictim captured in a nooseVictim burned in building
Travels with
Animals grateful for rescue from pit
Carried in tale types

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