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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • TuamotuStimson MS (T-G 3/59)
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 74.
Within the index

Filed under Fatal deception into trickster's power.

Filed beside it
Victim lured into house and killedVictim burned in his own house (or hiding place)Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts himOvercurious dupe enters trickster's basket and is killedVictim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killedDupe lured to supposed dance and killedVictim persuaded to disarm. KilledFairies in animal form persuaded they will hear music better in own shapes. Are killedWomen draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill himSham doctor kills his patientsVictim 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 themDupe persuaded to relax vigilance; seizedBloodthirsty animal by trickery admitted to fold: kills peaceful animalVictim killed while being bathedDupe induced to look about: seized and killed

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