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.

  • IrishMacCulloch Celtic 31.
  • general Dickson 240, 241 n. 44
  • general Krappe "Die Sage von der Tarpeja" Rheinisches Museum für Philologie LXXVIII (1929) 248–67
Within the index

Filed under Other deceptive captures.

Filed beside it
Unicorn tricked into running horn into treeVictim enticed into dancing: capturedDeception by having victim pick trickster's teethCapture by sight of women's breasts. Women with uncovered breasts meet hero. He averts his face and is capturedCapture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargainCapture by intoxication (or narcotic)Capture of castle by pretending to surrender and enteringCapture through the wiles of a woman. (Cf. K774.)Capture by lying in wait in enemy's hauntCapture by blindingIn duel with long poles the ogre is forced into the pig-styFairy wins kiss in game; embraces woman and flies off with her through skylight (smokehole)Maiden sent to rendezvous with lover, who is capturedWoman lured into the forest and captured
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With help of captor's daughter, prisoners slay many of his soldiers at a banquet. (Cf. K781.)

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