μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception into trickster's power. · view the constellation · filed as K839.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Victim enticed into eating: killed when off guard Victim lured into approach by false token Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard Camel lures wolf into looking at the writing on his breast. Crushes wolf Supernaturals tricked into (fatal) exposure to daylight

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “hornless” · wander