Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall — Mythoi

Motif

Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall.

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

Cited in the index

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

Within the index

Filed under Dupe tricked into killing himself.

Filed beside it

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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