Deception by pretended lousing

Motif

Deception by pretended lousing.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). · view the constellation · filed as K874

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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.

Irish mythCross: India: *Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
N. Am. Indian (Klikitat)Jacobs U Wash II 12
S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 502, RMLP XXXIII 144.

Within the index

Filed under Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication).

1 finer motif beneath it

Ape pretends to louse heron, but plucks out his feathers

Filed beside it

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

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