Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall

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Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Dupe tricked into killing himself. · view the constellation · filed as K895

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general Sulka of New Britain: Dixon 131, *132 n. 2.

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Poor man deceives rich man, plays tricks on him, causes his death Dupe tricked into jumping to his death Dupe crowded into the water: drowns Dupe forced on to thin ice: drowns himself Animal left out of his element: dies or escapes Dupe tricked on to slippery road lined with knives. He kills himself Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned

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