Disguised hero attacks enemy at feast — Mythoi

Motif

Disguised hero attacks enemy at feast.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Murder by strategy. · view the constellation · filed as K913

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
Japanese Ikeda.
general Boje 66

Within the index

Filed under Murder by strategy.

1 finer motif beneath it

Disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder

Filed beside it

Feigning death to kill enemy Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house Murder from ambush Dancer stabs spectator. Uses one of the figures of the dance as a ruse Treacherous murder during hunt Man murdered while praying Fox 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 water Artificial whale made as stratagem. Enemies surprised and killed Murder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizes Person cuts drawbridge partly through. Giant falls into moat. (Cf. K14, K1431, K1961.1.3.) Victim pushed into fire Victim pushed into water Slaughter of animals by stampede Murder through transformation Murder by strategy – miscellaneous

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