Victim enticed into eating: killed when off guard

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Victim enticed into eating: killed when off guard.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K839.1

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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.

N. Am. Indian (California)Gayton and Newman 87.

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Filed under Fatal deception into trickster's power – miscellaneous.

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