Fatal intoxication

Motif

Fatal intoxication.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

KoreanZong in-Sob 168 No. 72
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 441
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 397
West IndiesFlowers 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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