Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his body

Motif

Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his body.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Murder by strategy. · view the constellation · filed as K911.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general *Type 1539
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 198 No. 391
general Chauvin VII 151ff. No. 430.

Within the index

Filed under Feigning death to kill enemy.

Filed beside it

Man feigns death to stab brother who comes to grieve Sleep feigned to kill enemy Sham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slave Feigning deafness to lure enemy close and to kill him

Carried in tale types

Cleverness and Gullibility · ATU 15391 recorded variant

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