Fatal deception by giving narcotic

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Fatal deception by giving narcotic.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). · view the constellation · filed as K873

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV 5
India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Fang)Einstein 66, (Basuto): Jacottet 16 No. 2.

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Filed under Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication).

4 finer motifs beneath it

King given sleeping potion and then beheaded in his bed by his wife Groom murdered, while watchmen and bride are brought to sleep by music Boy makes adversary insensible by substituting opium for half of tobacco in pipe Drug introduced into half of fruit from enemy's fingernail where it has been hidden

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Fatal intoxication Judith and Holofernes: girl from enemy camp chosen to sleep with intoxicated general kills him in bed Deception by pretended lousing Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair

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