μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fatal intoxication.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). · view the constellation · filed as K871

Filed across the traditions
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 168 No. 72
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 441
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 397
  • West Indies Flowers 531.
Within the index

Filed under Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Army intoxicated and overcome Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.)
Filed beside it
Judith and Holofernes: girl from enemy camp chosen to sleep with intoxicated general kills him in bed Fatal deception by giving narcotic Deception by pretended lousing Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair

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