Snapping door. Traps victims

Motif

Snapping door. Traps victims.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim trapped. · view the constellation · filed as K736

“Then they exchanged arrows, the Sun giving him four arrows of his own. The points of these arrows were made of coal." Now the young man began to climb the mountain. When he came up to the goats, he took one of the arrows, aimed it, and shot. It struck the animals, but fell down without killing it. The same happened with the other arrows. When he had spent all his arrows, they rushed up to him from the four sides, intending to kill him.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 39 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 39 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 307 n. 113.

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