μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 119, (Fjort): Dennett 85 No. 10
  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 17
  • general Antigua, British West Indies: Johnson JAFL XXXIV 68.
Within the index

Filed under Capture by decoy.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Birds captured by imitating their songAttempted capture by causing animal to make noiseBird catches fishes by imitating voice of friend
Filed beside it
Capture by feigning death. (Cf. K757.)Capture by hiding under screen (grass, leaves, etc.)Capture by hiding in disguised objectsCapture by hiding in artificial animalCapture by masking as anotherCapture 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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