μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Types 304, 956AB
  • general *BP I 373
  • general *Fb "hoved" I 654b, "røver" III 132a
Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Robbers' (giants') noses cut off as they enter houseRobbers' (giants') hands cut off as they enter houseGiant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks outMen lured into serpent pit one by one and killedOgre suitor persuaded by woman to bury her murdered lover: she cuts off his head
Filed beside it
Feigning death to kill enemyDisguised 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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