Animals (giants) enticed over precipice

Motif

Animals (giants) enticed over precipice.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Dupe tricked into killing himself. · view the constellation · filed as K891.5.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 299 n. 91
Africa (Hottentot)Bleek 37 No. 18.

Within the index

Filed under Dupe induced to jump over precipice.

Filed beside it

Dupe crowded over precipice Dupes persuaded to be thrown over precipice. (Cf. K842.)Dupes deceived into falling over precipice

Carried in tale types

The Fall over the Edge (previously Over the Edge) · ATU 10***1 recorded variant

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