μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 30 No. 1, (Basuto): Jacottet 100 No. 15, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 384 No. 2
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 79 No. 15, 95 No. 18 (hollow tree).
Within the index

Filed under Capture by decoy.

Filed beside it
Capture by feigning death. (Cf. K757.)Capture by hiding in disguised objectsCapture by hiding in artificial animalCapture by masking as anotherCapture by imitation of animal's voiceCapture by feigning illness. (Cf. K751.)Capture by hiding in baskets of foodCapture by putting on the clothes of slain enemyStranger asks woman for fire: abducts herCapture by hiding in hollow treeWitch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture childHare carries disguised lion covered with honey, thus luring animals into trap

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