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

Motif

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

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K812.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place).

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Men lured to their death when their fields are set on fire Monkey lures tiger into tree-top and sets fire to it Owner burns intruder in house

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