Dupe persuaded to play for wedding party. Takes place of trickster, who sets fire and burns him up

Motif

Dupe persuaded to play for wedding party. Takes place of trickster, who sets fire and burns him up.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Deception into fatal substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K844

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Mexico: Boas JAFL XXV 207, 238, Mechling JAFL XXV 202
general New Mexico: Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419. Cf. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 90 No. 17.

Within the index

Filed under Deception into fatal substitution.

Filed beside it

Substitute for execution obtained by trickery Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.)Dupe persuaded to be killed in order to go to heaven Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.)Trickster being attacked by ferocious animal persuades dupe to take his place

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