Animal left out of his element: dies or escapes — Mythoi

Motif

Animal left out of his element: dies or escapes.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Dupe tricked into killing himself. · view the constellation · filed as K896

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 37 receipt

Within the index

Filed under Dupe tricked into killing himself.

1 finer motif beneath it

Beaver and porcupine trick each other. Beaver carries porcupine and abandons him in the center of a lake. Porcupine causes the lake to freeze and escapes. He then carries beaver and abandons him in the top of a tree

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 Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall 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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