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Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Victim trapped. · view the constellation · filed as K741

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 336, 442
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson CColl II 440, 444ff.
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis VIII 105, IX 106, XII 319, Weeks Jungle 431, (Angola): Chatelain 185 No. 22
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Remus 7 No. 2
  • Jamaica *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 244 Nos. 20, 21.
  • general *Type 175
  • general **Cline American Literature II 72ff.
  • general **Espinosa JAFL XLIII 129ff., LVI 31ff., Las versiones hispanicas peninsulares del cuento del muñeco de brea (Estudios dedicados a Menendez Pidal [Madrid, 1951]) 357–81, Sobre los origines del cuento del muñeco de brea (Bol. de la Bibl. Menendez y Pelayo XIII 296–318)
  • general *Dh IV 26
  • general **Parsons FL XXX 227, JAFL XXXV 330
  • general *Taylor JAOS LXIV 4ff.
  • general Brown Scientific Monthly XV 228
  • general Werner Folklore X 282. – Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 77 No. 650
  • general (Hottentot): Theal 90, (Yoruba): Ellis 255 No. 4, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 71, (Kaffir): Kidd 242 No. 9, (Ekoi): Talbot 397, (Mpongwe): Nassau 22 No. 2, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 356 398, (Cameroon): Gantenbein 69, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 74, Fables 59
Within the index

Filed under Victim trapped.

1 finer motif beneath it
Capture by tarring back of a horse
Filed beside 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 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

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