μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K814

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Angola) Chatelain 197 No. 25.
Within the index

Filed under Fatal deception into trickster's power.

Filed beside it
Victim lured into house and killed Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place) Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed Dupe lured to supposed dance and killed Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed Fairies in animal form persuaded they will hear music better in own shapes. Are killed Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him Sham doctor kills his patients Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue) Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them Dupe persuaded to relax vigilance; seized Bloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animal Victim killed while being bathed Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed

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