Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned — Mythoi

Motif

Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Dupe tricked into killing himself. · view the constellation · filed as K898

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

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 Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall Animal left out of his element: dies or escapes Dupe tricked on to slippery road lined with knives. He kills himself

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