Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself

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Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Dupe tricked into killing himself. · view the constellation · filed as K891.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Indonesia, Japan, Melanesia: Dixon 194 nn. 26–28, Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 68, 92.

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