μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1131
  • N. Am. Indian (Klikitat)Jacobs U Wash II 35
  • Africa (Mpongwe)Nassau 17 No. 1.
  • general *Type 56B
  • general Wienert FFC LVI *59 (ET 207), 98 (ST 125)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 225
  • general Chauvin III 76 No. 50
  • general Herbert III 36ff.
  • general Hervieux IV 220 No. 49. Icelandic: Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his bodyMan feigns death to stab brother who comes to grieveSleep feigned to kill enemySham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slaveFeigning deafness to lure enemy close and to kill him
Filed beside it
Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter houseDisguised hero attacks enemy at feastMurder from ambushDancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruseTreacherous murder during huntMan murdered while prayingFox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the waterArtificial whale made as stratagem. Enemies surprised and killedMurder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizesPerson cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.)Victim pushed into fireVictim pushed into waterSlaughter of animals by stampedeMurder through transformationMurder by strategy – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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