μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Boy teaches giants how to lay a carpet of dried grass and naphtha over the hard ground floor of their cave, sets fire to it and thus suffocates them.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K812.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Dupe's house set afire so that he is burned in trying to put out fire.

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “suffocates” · wander