μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Cited in the index
  • 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

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