Witch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture child — Mythoi

Motif

Witch pretends to be starving beggar woman in order to capture child.

Deceptions. · Capture by deception. · Capture by decoy. · view the constellation · filed as K764

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Capture by decoy.

Filed beside it

Capture by feigning death. (Cf. K757.) Capture by hiding under screen (grass, leaves, etc.) Capture by hiding in disguised objects Capture by hiding in artificial animal Capture by masking as another Capture by imitation of animal's voice Capture by feigning illness. (Cf. K751.) Capture by hiding in baskets of food Capture by putting on the clothes of slain enemy Stranger asks woman for fire: abducts her Capture by hiding in hollow tree Hare carries disguised lion covered with honey, thus luring animals into trap

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