μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fatal deception by giving narcotic.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone IV 5
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Fang) Einstein 66, (Basuto): Jacottet 16 No. 2.
Within the index

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
Filed beside it
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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