μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Victim killed while being bathed.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K831

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Filed under Fatal deception into trickster's power.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole Monkey killed by girls who pretend to wash its buttocks
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 Overcurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killed 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 Dupe induced to look about: seized and killed Man lured into aiding trickster who has feigned an accident or needs help. Is killed
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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